Search results
Writer: Twelve. 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.
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.
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 37th San Francisco Jewish Film...
Dec 16, 2012 · Jordan Melamed's documentary examines the director's stormy relationship with his father, against their shared backdrop of financial futures trading.
Oct 18, 2016 · Jordan Melamed's "Futures Past" stars his father Leo Melamed, who fled from the Nazis and the KGB to become Chicago Mercantile Exchange chair.
Jordan Melamed is a former trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a filmmaker. He is the son of CME Chairman Emeritus Leo Melamed. He followed his father’s footsteps to the trading floor of the CME. After a career trading in the open outcry markets he pursued a career as a filmmaker.
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.
Jordan Melamed is known for Twelve (2010), Manic (2001) and Futures Past (2016).
