In addition to producing COOKED: Survival by Zip Code, Doremus co-produced the Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning, ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail for PBS Frontline series. Do I think the city is addressing the extreme poverty in communities of color in Chicago? Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Author, Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice'This is an important film that makes the often missed connections between poverty and environmental harms. Cooked Survival By Zip Code cover. Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents mostly elderly and black died over the course of one week. Directed by Judith Helfand. During the crisis, Mayor Richard M. Daley tried to lay the blame for high mortality rates on black families, saying they should take better care of their elders and check in with them more. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart. Sparking democracy through documentary since 1966, Kartemquin is a collaborative center empowering filmmakers who create documentaries that foster a more engaged and just society. They were dying on the south and west sides.. Is that what youre asking me? Skip to main content. Meanwhile, 3,000 die every year within a five-mile radius, from preventable health problems. Cooked tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American.. See the virtual panel discussion with filmmakers here. in cooked: survival by zip code, 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 Transition St Andrews Community Interest Company (CIC), Go St Andrews your hub for smarter travel, St AndReuse Garages, Behind University Hall, Kennedy Gardens, KY16 9DL, St Mary's Place, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9UY, Nisbet Room, David Russell Apartments, Buchanan Gardens, St Andrews KY16 9LY, 7 Woodburn Place, St Andrews, KY16 8LA, Festive Fashion: the Weird and the Wonderful, Our New Skillshare Coordinator: Anya Hart-Dyke, Mycorrhizae Episode 4: Transition Christmas Dinner. [3] It was broadcast on Independent Lens on February 3, 2020.[4][5]. When peeled away from the shocking headlines the story reveals the less newsworthy but long-term crisis of pernicious poverty, economic, and social isolation and racism. is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend. She has designed and implemented numerous successful outreach and engagement campaigns for many social issue documentaries, and has produced over 300 impact events across the country featuring films about economic and racial justice, mental health, women, civil discourse, juvenile justice, and Jewish identity. 100:00:02,504 --> 00:00:05,254(relaxing music)200:00:11,362 --> 00:00:14,445(light guitar music)300:00:15,786 --> 00:00:19,036(musical horn blaring)400:00:23,155 --> 00:00:28,155(waves crashing) (somber music)500:00:36,370 --> 00:00:39,479[Judith] What's the bestway to prepare for disaster?600:00:39,480 --> 00:00:42,469It's a question lots ofpeople are asking these days,700:00:42,470 --> 00:00:45,719as the planet heats up andwe find ourselves facing800:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,035one unprecedenteddisaster after another.900:00:49,036 --> 00:00:52,036(people chattering)1000:00:54,656 --> 00:00:55,815New Jersey or something1100:00:55,816 --> 00:00:58,001to get the fishnet. Judith Helfand is best known for her ability to take the dark worlds of chemical exposure, heedless corporate behavior and environmental injustice and make them personal, highly-charged and entertaining. 2022. David received a BA in Philosophy fromSt. Johns College, and an MFA in Filmmaking from theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago. A part of PBS, America's Home for Documentaries. His previous collection wasPirates You Dont Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life. In 10 years, that is 32,000 deaths, just from racism in the City of Chicago, he says. The first woman to paint the official portrait of a U.S. president, Greta Kempton also painted Cabinet officials, governors, senators, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, two Postmasters General, a Supreme Court justice, several university presidents, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. www.kartemquin.com, Ford Foundation | JustFilmsThe Center for Independent Documentary, Independent Television Service (ITVS) Leo S. Guthman FundJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Fledgling FundSundance Institute Documentary Film Program with support fromOpen Society FoundationsJustFilms | Ford Foundation Rockefeller FoundationThe Marisla FoundationThe Putnam FoundationThe Dobkin Family FoundationPark Foundation, Inc.The Dorot FoundationLisa K. Chanoff & Matthew I. Chan/Rose GoldBertha FoundationFork Films, LLCThe Todd and Betiana Simon FoundationRobert Wood Johnson FoundationThe Russell Family FoundationSarah & Timothy CavanaughBeth B. SacklerThe Ettinger FoundationThe Rockefeller Foundations Media Arts Fellowshipand many generous others, For media requests and inquiries, please contact:2050 Group: 212-642-4317 (O) 202-422-4673 Adam Segal, adam@the2050group.comKartemquin Films: 773-472-4366Tim Horsburgh, tim@kartemquin.com. When peeled away from the shocking headlines the story reveals the less newsworthy but long-term crisis of pernicious poverty, economic, and social isolation and racism. Cine-File'A much-needed slap in the face to the American peopleIt's time that those of us with privilege do something to help those who don't.' In the last third of the film, Helfand attends a conference for disaster preparedness, where people warn of 69 lightning deaths in the US, and other things that might not happen in our lifetimes. Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies, Founding Director, Environmental Justice Project, University of California - Davis, Author, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice'This searing, visceral post-mortem of the 1995 Chicago Heatwavereminds us of the painfully deep spatial inequities and injustices that are baked into the very DNA of US cities. This discussion will feature COD faculty Missy Mouritsen and Maureen Heffern Ponicki, who will discuss the role of politics in the events of Cooked. No. Do you really think its about the heat? Helfand asks Geraldine Flowers, Church Elder, Sweet Holy Baptist Church. It is an intergenerational love story about mourning her mother and becoming a new old mom at the same time. The heat deaths were in poor neighborhoods that had once been redlined and where disinvestment had been practiced for decades. He was the founding Series Editor of Crux, a literary nonfiction book series at University of Georgia Press. ", "COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE PREMIERES ON INDEPENDENT LENS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2020 ON PBS AND PBS.ORG", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cooked:_Survival_by_Zip_Code&oldid=1107661594, Documentary films about African Americans, Documentary films about natural disasters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 05:23. She asks us to think about and re-define racism and poverty as, indeed, disasters.' She calls this the morality of our national priorities., One interviewee, Andy Nebel, then a reporter for ABC News, says, Sexiness for the news media [in the Chicago heat wave] was, it was about the heat. The Green Film Festival look forward to hopefully seeing some returning faces from the discussions in the future! (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois School of Public Health) | Moderator: Anne Evens (Elevate Energy), TUESDAY July 23rd @ 8pm - Social Determinants of Health: Closing the Life Expectancy Gap - Part 2, Panelists: Fernando De Maio (DePaul University), Wesley Epplin (Health & Medicine Policy Research Group and Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County), Judith Helfand (Director/Producer, COOKED: Survival by Zip Code), Brenda Rodriguez | Moderator: James Bloyd, Collaborative for Health Equity, THURSDAY July 25th @ 8pmFrom A Social Autopsy to A Palace for the People: A conversation with filmmaker Judith Helfand and author, Eric Klinenberg about the value of social capital and community-based institutions as life saving forces | Moderator: Jamie Nesbitt Golden (Block Club Chicago), Woods Hole Film Festival - Woods Hole, MA - July 29, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival - San Francisco, CA - July 22, 24; August 4, Gene Siskel Film Center - Chicago, IL - July 12 - July 25, Filmmakers and special guests in-person at select screenings, Sarasota Film Festival- Sarasota, FL - April 13, 14, Detroit Free Press Film Festival (FREEP) - Detroit, MI - April 12, Princeton Environmental Film Festival - Princeton, NJ - April 11, Environmental Film Festival at Yale- New Haven, CT - April 6, Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival - Philadelphia, PA - April 6, DC Environmental Film Festival - Washington, D.C. - March 17, University of Wisconsin, Center for the Humanities - March 7, For media requests and inquiries, please contact:2050 Group: 212-642-4317 (O) 202-422-4673 Adam Segal, adam@the2050group.comKartemquin Films: 773-472-4366Tim Horsburgh, tim@kartemquin.com, What Documentaries Can Tell Us About This Summers Climate Catastrophes I Chicago Tribune, July 9, 2021, The Deadly Chicago Heat Wave Is As Relevant to Racial Justice Today As It Was 25 Years Ago | NRDC, July 15, 2020, 25th anniversary of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave Cook County press conference | Cook County, July 13, 2020, Former county health chief: Racism common factor in deaths in 95 Chicago heat wave, COVID-19, | Chicago Sun-Times | June 28, 2020, Chicagos 1995 heatwave: Filmmakers on Cooked and how race, privilege determined who lived and who died |Chicago Tribune |10 July 2019, Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code review: A withering look at the 1995 Chicago heat wave |Chicago Tribune |10 July 2019, Cooked: Edifying documentary sheds light on Chicagos deadly 95 heat wave |Chicago Sun-Times |10 July 2019, Hot Heat Hot: A Review of Cooked: Survival of Zip Code |NewCity |12 July 2019, Review: Cooked Explores the Inequality of Natural Disaster Response |Third Coast Review |12 July 2019, New Film Cooked Revisits Chicagos Deadly Heat Wave |WTTW Chicago PBS |18 July 2019, Chicago Scene: COOKED: Survival by Zip Code |WGN 9 |19 July 2019, Judith Helfands COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE (New Documentary) |Cine-File |19 July 2019. The Daley administration made a City Emergency Heat Plan after the 1995 disaster. Kathy Leichter is an award-winning documentary producer, director, impact producer, and engagement strategist with over thirty years of experience. The underlying dynamic in those same communities, which determined who would live and die during the heat wave, of course continue to exist now., He has a hard time not laughing bitterly. Simeon also directed the the documentariesNo Humans Involved, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival;St. Mulekicker, which played in over 40 film festivals world-wide;Martyrs and Saints; andMy Brother, Nathaniel. The group also became incredibly reflective after seeing a pre-recorded interview with Helfand, chatting about our strengths and limits as filmmakers, promotors and activists. 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