I'm a Hedge Funder, and I've Been Trying to Write a Project on Hedgefunders for a Long Time.

David and i started trying to write about hedge funders eight years before billions ever happened, and almost did a project about h p o. And so it had long held our fascination that there were these people with this kind of outsized power and influence that most americans weren't really aware of. We wanted to put figures on the screen who would embody some of that and see whether people would be able to get past just merely rooting for them. They ought to look at them with a bit more of a jaundiced eye....