Mar

22 2020

Futures Past - NH Jewish Film Festival

3:30PM - 5:30PM  

Cinemagic-Merrimack 11 Executive Park Drive
Merrimack , NH 03054
6036277679 info@jewishnh.org
http://www.nhjewishfilmfestival.org

Contact Patricia Kalik
6036277679
info@jewishnh.org
http://www.nhjewishfilmfestival.org

$ Cost $ 12.00

New Hampshire Premiere
Cinemagic, Merrimack, NH

SPECIAL GUEST: Jordan Melamed

Director: Jordan Melamed
Documentary, 2016, USA
89 minutes
English

Set against the last days of trading in the legendary Chicago pits, Futures Past captures the power struggle between filmmaker Jordan Melamed and his father, Leo Melamed, Holocaust survivor and kingpin of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. What begins as a documentary of the end of an era becomes a deeply personal exploration by a son returning to the kill or be killed world he was raised in.

One of the best films Ive seen this year by far. Richard Roeper, Fox 32 Chicago

Its in his conversations and confrontations with Leo that Jordan strikes documentary-film gold. Both of them articulate, conflict-hungry men with personal scores to settle, which they proceed to chew over on camera for our delectation. Hollywood Report