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Jordan Melamed is known for Twelve (2010), Manic (2001) and Futures Past (2016).
Commodity trader turned filmmaker Jordan Melamed returns to his former life as the Chicago trading pits are threatened with extinction. ‘Open Outcry,’ the 150-year-old tradition of traders shouting out their orders, is being silenced by computer trading.
jordan melamed. Director Jordan Melamed spent twelve years in the Chicago trading pits before attending the American Film Institute in Los Angeles where his thesis film, A CORNER IN GOlD, won the Student Emmy for Drama from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and played at Kodak’s Emerging Filmmaker’s Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jul 30, 2017 · Director, Jordan Melamed (Futures Past) discusses the film onstage at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco at a screening of the new film, presented at the 37...
Oct 14, 2016 · Filmmaker Jordan Melamed returns to the most violent of all financial arenas, the Chicago trading pits, as the world built by his Father, legendary Capitalist Leo Melamed, is threatened with extinction by computer trading.
May 8, 2003 · Before directing Manic, the sober new film about life in a juvenile mental hospital, Jordan Melamed wrestled with this existentialist conflict. “I was in the pit,” he recalls of his days as a commodities trader, buying and selling on the crowded floors of Chicago’s cutthroat Stock Exchange.
Oct 8, 2016 · http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/film/futures-past/Filmmaker Jordan Melamed returns to his former career as the pits at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are...
