Futures Past

Financial trader–turned–filmmaker Jordan Melamed returned to his old stomping grounds - the pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) - to chronicle the demise of open outcry, the 150-year old tradition of shouting orders that was being replaced by computer systems. He wound up with a much more personal, and fascinating, two-track documentary about the loss of tradition and failures of communication occurring in his own family. (Denver International Film Festival)