When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn’t see himself—a middle-aged, unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx. He saw the face of change, of hope . . . of money. Bronx Obama tells the strange and improbable tale of a Barack Obama impersonator who cashes in on the “look of a lifetime” and chases a fevered American dream from opportunity to oblivion. Director Murdock documented Ortiz from Obama’s first term through the 2012 election and skillfully captured moments both ludicrous and unsettling as he hones in on the question, “What does it mean to be someone you’re not?” (DW)