“Serious psychological gamesmanship”

- Chicago Tribune

“The creeping dominance of technology, familial issues, a dying art, there is enough here to keep Freud busy for eons.”

- Slash Film

“Strikes Documentary Film Gold”

- The Hollywood Reporter

"One of the best films I've seen this year by far."

- Richard Roeper, Fox 32 Chicago

Futures Past

Filmmaker Jordan Melamed returns to his former life at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to document the battle between traders in the pits and the computers that threaten to silence them, only to reignite his lifelong power struggle with his father Leo Melamed, longtime kingpin of the CME.

Writer/Producer/Director Jordan Melamed


Cast Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus of the CME, Jordan Melamed

Editor Melissa Neidich

Cinematographer Slavomir Grunberg, Seth Henrikson, Sid Lubitsch

Producer Dough Block

Executive Producer Vincent Viola

COMING in 2026

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