Paris-based investigative journalist Jennifer Deschamps isn’t the first person who springs to mind as the best-placed storyteller to turn the collapse of Lehman Brothers into a documentary. This is wrong thinking, as Inside Lehman Brothers, which has its Canadian premiere Saturday evening at Hot Docs, attests. A specialist with Lehman Brothers MarketMakers works her post on Sept. 15, 2008 — the day the firm slid into bankruptcy. Lehman Brothers imploded in the fall of 2008. It just hadn’t hit bottom yet.” The understory beneath what was happening in Lehman finance is told through women who worked at BNC Mortgage, a California-based Lehman subsidiary.

Source: thestar April 23, 2019 19:18 UTC