Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, these men who use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans, wear the weight of our failing economy around their shoulders— along with their neon-colored jackets. It’s a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives.

In FLOORED, Director James Allen Smith, not only penetrates this cult-like profession and its closely held customs; he introduces the audience to the men behind the mayhem.

At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen.

“Floored” is in post-production and will be released in 2009.