Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

2019

1h 21m

Documentary

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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

03/11/2020

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

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Ally Ham

Video Librarian Magazine

08/11/2024

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.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

07/13/2020

3/5

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...

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

06/08/2020

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...

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Louis Proyect

Counterpunch.org

05/23/2020

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.

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Judith Helfand

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Toni Preckwinkle

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Synopsis

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