Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 2019

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Documentary

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).

Homepage https://www.cookedthefilm.com/
Release Date 2019-07-12
Runtime 1h 19m
Director Judith Helfand
Producers Justine Nagan, Sandra Itkoff, Gordon Quinn, Fenell Doremus, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Barbara Dobkin, Abigail Disney, Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Julie Parker Benello
Writer Eric Klinenberg