Cooked: Survival by Zipcode

Co-Editor

Directed by Judith Helfand
1 hr 19 mins, 2018

Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand uses her signature serious-yet-quirky connect-the-dots style to take audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave – in which 739 mostly Black, elderly and poor Chicagoans died during the course of one week – deep into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries: disaster preparedness. Along the way she forges inextricable links between extreme weather, extreme disparity and racism.