Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Released Jul 12, 2019

1h 21m

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Examining the 1995 Chicago record-breaking heat wave that resulted in over 700 deaths. A look at the people most affected by natural disasters and the politics involved.

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

The film bites off more than it can chew... but its argument is persuasive and worrying.

Mar 11, 2020

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Ally Ham

Video Librarian Magazine

Helfand’s documentary and its accompanying teacher’s guide argue convincingly for a more layered view of so-called “natural” disasters: one that considers poverty and race as underlying factors to thousands of unnecessary deaths each year.

Aug 11, 2024

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

A timely film which demonstrates how easy it is for privileged people to miss the subtle effects of racism, and how dangerous living in a white supremacist society is for people of colour...

Rated: 3/5

Jul 13, 2020

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

Docmaker Judith Helfand probes a deadly 1995 heat wave that took at least 739 lives in Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. Helfand deftly connects the climate-change dots from Chicago's "unnatural disaster" to Hurricane Katrina...

Jun 8, 2020

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Louis Proyect

Counterpunch.org

A foreshadowing of the 2020 pandemic, with Richard Daley Jr., a Democrat, being just as unprepared as Trump and just as self-justifying. A necessary documentary.

May 23, 2020

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Examining the 1995 Chicago record-breaking heat wave that resulted in over 700 deaths. A look at the people most affected by natural disasters and the politics involved.

Director: Judith Helfand
Producer: Fenell Doremus
Production Co: ITVS International, Kartemquin Films, Ford Foundation - Just Films, Fork Films, Judith Hefland Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 12, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 3, 2019
Runtime: 1h 21m

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