This searing, offbeat documentary connects the dots to more recent natural disasters, provocatively exploring the ways in which class, race and zip code predetermine our chances of survival during environmental crises. A human emergency plan. 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 Scheduled for 4,854 airdates in total on 613 PBS channels, COOKED: Survival By Zip Code ranks among the top dozen Independent Lens films of all time for broadcast frequency and channel reach. "132901:09:59,970 --> 01:10:04,453I wouldn't say that,although it's true.133001:10:05,580 --> 01:10:09,279Standing where we arenow, let me see,133101:10:09,280 --> 01:10:11,083where would you go get a tomato?133201:10:12,040 --> 01:10:12,873OK?133301:10:14,150 --> 01:10:16,363I have to think aboutthat long and hard.133401:10:20,265 --> 01:10:22,118You got to go to59th and Kensey.133501:10:22,142 --> 01:10:23,184[Judith] Is that far?133601:10:23,185 --> 01:10:26,250Which is mile and a half.133701:10:27,730 --> 01:10:31,56369th is another mileand a half in Ashland.133801:10:34,710 --> 01:10:38,713Going north to 47th Street,another mile and a half.133901:10:42,470 --> 01:10:45,579Some people describecommunities on the south side134001:10:45,580 --> 01:10:49,329as food deserts, not a termwe particularly care for134101:10:49,330 --> 01:10:51,877but the problemin our communities134201:10:51,901 --> 01:10:55,208is there's food therebut it's low quality.134301:10:55,209 --> 01:10:58,542(cash register beeping)134401:11:01,875 --> 01:11:05,105[Man] Give me anotherthing of chips, up there.134501:11:05,106 --> 01:11:06,465[Woman] See, and I be saying,134601:11:06,466 --> 01:11:08,039he's brought usfood all our lives.134701:11:08,063 --> 01:11:09,189[Woman] Do what I tell you.134801:11:09,205 --> 01:11:10,503- OK then.- Look at that.134901:11:10,504 --> 01:11:12,155[Woman] Did I dare to call you135001:11:12,156 --> 01:11:14,113and told you to comesee what I want?135101:11:14,114 --> 01:11:16,148[Man] Hey, hey, hey,hey, what y'all doing?135201:11:16,149 --> 01:11:17,609Uh-uh. May 6 -Shelter in Place Virtual Film Series - Arkansas PBS, May 16 - First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist - Jamaica Plain, MA [VIRTUAL SCREENING]. Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com'Helfand's brilliance in Cooked is precisely the way she shifts and re-orients our entire social mentality and approach to thinking about racism, poverty, and disaster. This film can be used in a wide range of classrooms with social and ethnic studies and health policy as well as in public contexts of churches, community groups, and other venues.' MPH, F.A.C.P. 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. Teaching Activity. Dont be ridiculous.. He co-edited the recently releasedCooked: Survival by Zip Code; as well asAbacus: Small Enough to Jail, which received a2018 Oscar nomination, wonBest Documentary Editingat the Ashland Film Festival, and was termed an exemplary piece of filmmaking by Sight & Sound. She lives in NYC with her five-year-old daughter Theodora and their beta-fish MaxiTaxI. Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Professor, Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University, Author, Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina'This film is searing, smart and insightfulThe film asks important questions with humor, humility, and humanity. "40800:21:19,470 --> 00:21:22,009And so never would the word heat40900:21:22,010 --> 00:21:24,699appear anywhere onthe death certificate.41000:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,061[Judith] So are yousuggesting that there were41100:21:27,085 --> 00:21:29,179actually more deathsthan are accounted for?41200:21:29,180 --> 00:21:30,569Oh yes.41300:21:30,570 --> 00:21:33,470I couldn't see how the numberwouldn't be bigger than 525.41400:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,219So we added up thetotal number of people41500:21:38,220 --> 00:21:42,089who died during July,and we subtracted this baseline41600:21:42,090 --> 00:21:45,069of the expected numberof deaths per day,41700:21:45,070 --> 00:21:48,453and the numbercame out to be 726,41800:21:50,490 --> 00:21:55,419And so, they're arguing aboutwhether 525 was too big,41900:21:55,420 --> 00:21:58,737and I now am saying,"It's much too small. Three of those premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, with national broadcasts on PBS (POV), HBO and The Sundance Channel. 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. The organization's films have received four Academy Award nominations and won several major prizes, including six Emmys, four Peabody Awards, multiple Independent Spirit, IDA, PGA and DGA awards, and duPont-Columbia and Robert F. Kennedy journalism awards. 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. Film. Helfands other long-form films include EVERYTHINGS COOL and THE UPRISING OF 34. On Wednesday the 25th November, the Green Film Festival were invited into a collaboration with the Universitys Film Studies Department and the Byre Theatre to host a discussion around their screening of Judith Helfands Cooked: Survival by Zip Code. But Helfand does much more than tell this story although she does tell it, and tells it powerfully. He is currently at work onCity so Real, an episodic series directed by Steve James, that paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of Chicago through the lens of the 2019 mayoral election. See the recorded conversation here. Skip to main content Print. He co-editedMaya Angelou: And Still I Rise, which premiered at Sundance, aired on American Masters and won a Peabody. His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography, and he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and This American Life. Helfand is a field-builder who has helped reshape the documentary landscape by co-founding two critical organizations -- Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Whitman had outlined.92100:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,8793,200 deaths from terrorism92200:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,923are considered anational disaster.92300:50:56,710 --> 00:51:00,359And 3,200 deaths fromtreatable diseases,92400:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,059taking place in neighborhoods92500:51:02,060 --> 00:51:05,723just due south and west fromhere, are barely considered.92600:51:06,670 --> 00:51:10,669But if those 3,200preventable deaths in a year92700:51:10,670 --> 00:51:13,573aren't a disaster,I don't know what is.92800:51:16,746 --> 00:51:19,279And that's when I startedgoogling disaster,92900:51:21,180 --> 00:51:25,869which led me to DisasterMaster, to disaster prevention.93000:51:25,870 --> 00:51:29,159[Woman] To guarantee goodhealth, you need clean water.93100:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,899It filters about agallon every five minutes,93200:51:32,900 --> 00:51:34,639which is faster than most.93300:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,829[Judith] Todisaster preparedness,93400:51:36,830 --> 00:51:39,119which, I soon learned,is one of our nation's93500:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,399most dynamic growth industries.93600:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,104All right, let's startoff my talking about93700:51:43,128 --> 00:51:47,914emergency food,packaged to last 25 years.93800:51:48,240 --> 00:51:51,413[Judith] And finally,disaster preparedness Chicago.93900:51:52,288 --> 00:51:54,719(helicopter whirring)94000:51:54,720 --> 00:51:56,539Which is how I learnedthat in a suburb94100:51:56,540 --> 00:51:59,929just north of the city, CookCounty was about to show off94200:51:59,930 --> 00:52:01,369its latest innovations94300:52:01,370 --> 00:52:04,529in government-fundeddisaster preparedness.94400:52:04,530 --> 00:52:06,869It seemed like aperfect opportunity94500:52:06,870 --> 00:52:08,423for me to learn the basics.94600:52:09,690 --> 00:52:14,325{\an8}This year, Cook Countywill share $47.7 million94700:52:14,350 --> 00:52:18,334{\an8}in Urban Area SecurityInitiative, UASI, grants funds.94800:52:19,309 --> 00:52:22,351What you're gonna see isjust a handful of resources94900:52:22,380 --> 00:52:24,509that have been put in placeover the last 10 years,95000:52:24,510 --> 00:52:27,159mainly paid forthrough federal grants.95100:52:27,160 --> 00:52:28,832This is the logisticsresupply truck.95200:52:28,833 --> 00:52:32,646It's got all the basics tosupport a 500-person force95300:52:32,647 --> 00:52:34,409for three days.95400:52:34,410 --> 00:52:36,379Over here is a mobileventilation unit.95500:52:36,380 --> 00:52:39,079We can clear an areaunbelievably efficiently95600:52:39,080 --> 00:52:40,539using these machines.95700:52:40,540 --> 00:52:42,885Mobile warehouse,seven semitrailers95800:52:42,909 --> 00:52:44,699each with 18,000 items95900:52:44,700 --> 00:52:47,239of things we neededfor the fist 72 hours.96000:52:47,240 --> 00:52:49,399Unified command vehicle.96100:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,819There are around, I believe,96200:52:50,820 --> 00:52:52,67016 of these in thestate of Illinois.96300:52:53,556 --> 00:52:55,975I started gettinginto this whole question96400:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,407about disaster becauseof the 1995 heatwave.96500:52:59,866 --> 00:53:02,489{\an8}A lot of things thatare in place today,96600:53:02,490 --> 00:53:05,500{\an8}were a result of lessonslearned from the 1995 heatwave.96700:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,329If you remember,1995 we were keeping bodies96800:53:08,330 --> 00:53:11,039in refrigerated food trucks.96900:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,659We now have a vehiclethat's specifically made97000:53:14,660 --> 00:53:16,129for this task.97100:53:16,130 --> 00:53:18,149The victim would beput into this vehicle.97200:53:18,150 --> 00:53:20,033We can hold 27 victims.97300:53:20,940 --> 00:53:25,589We can chill this unitdown to 32 degrees.97400:53:25,590 --> 00:53:28,363[Judith] Which is basicallya refrigerated morgue on wheels?97500:53:29,400 --> 00:53:30,998Yeah, I wouldn'tput that in the press.97600:53:30,999 --> 00:53:33,289I'd flower it up alittle better, but yes.97700:53:33,290 --> 00:53:34,790[Judith] What would you say?97800:53:35,630 --> 00:53:38,063That's a victimcontainment system.97900:53:39,740 --> 00:53:41,639[Judith] That victimcontainment system98000:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,309was just one of manybig shiny new trucks98100:53:44,310 --> 00:53:46,069at this county event.98200:53:46,070 --> 00:53:49,529Multiply that by 3,142 counties,98300:53:49,530 --> 00:53:52,069or county equivalentsin the United States98400:53:52,070 --> 00:53:54,812currently gearing upfor future disasters98500:53:54,837 --> 00:53:56,814and you start toget the picture.98600:53:56,823 --> 00:54:00,386Disaster preparedness is avery well-resourced endeavor.98700:54:03,730 --> 00:54:05,959But what if it waspossible to re-purpose98800:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,659this massive infrastructure,which already operates98900:54:09,660 --> 00:54:12,699on local, regional,and national levels,99000:54:12,700 --> 00:54:14,609and put it in serviceof communities99100:54:14,610 --> 00:54:16,983struck by unnatural disasters?99200:54:18,660 --> 00:54:21,769What if we decided to useeven some of these resources99300:54:21,770 --> 00:54:25,463to keep people from dyingjust because they're poor?99400:54:28,160 --> 00:54:29,889That was the question on my mind99500:54:29,890 --> 00:54:33,099when I found out about adisaster preparedness conference99600:54:33,100 --> 00:54:36,619taking place just twostates, one floodplain,99700:54:36,620 --> 00:54:39,739and one seismic faultline away from Chicago99800:54:39,740 --> 00:54:40,993in Paducah, Kentucky.99900:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,069It's all aboutdisaster preparedness.100000:54:44,070 --> 00:54:46,539We're talking about icestorms, a big earthquake100100:54:46,540 --> 00:54:48,329that could happen hereon the New Madrid fault,100200:54:48,330 --> 00:54:50,529as well as a slewof other disasters.100300:54:50,530 --> 00:54:53,109We've got people from FEMAhere, from the Red Cross,100400:54:53,110 --> 00:54:54,533from the USGS.100500:54:59,050 --> 00:55:00,064Judith Helfand.100600:55:01,760 --> 00:55:02,747- Yeah?- Yes.100700:55:02,748 --> 00:55:04,242[Judith] All right. Cooked: Survival By Zip Code . Helfand focuses on Chicagos heat wave to look at how a weeklong tragedy is really a story about the slow-motion disaster caused by race and class inequality. She asks us to think about and re-define racism and poverty as, indeed, disasters.' She is currently producing END OF LOVE, a story about the dangerous intersection of technology, adolescence and porn. No, $1, $1.1200:00:58,002 --> 00:01:00,997I'm afraid you getlucky to get it for $1.1300:01:00,998 --> 00:01:04,081(slow, somber music)1400:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,439[Announcer] LowerManhattan, Staten Island,1500:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,109for the last place youhave to leave, mandatory.1600:01:33,110 --> 00:01:35,369[Judith] Personally,I'd never really had to grapple1700:01:35,370 --> 00:01:36,913with disaster preparedness.1800:01:38,150 --> 00:01:39,809That is until Hurricane Sandy1900:01:39,810 --> 00:01:41,949was heading towardsmy home town.2000:01:41,950 --> 00:01:44,072And are you readyfor this hurricane?2100:01:44,073 --> 00:01:46,299I got my batteries,I got my flashlights,2200:01:46,300 --> 00:01:47,795I got my candles, I'm good.2300:01:47,819 --> 00:01:49,463All right, did you fillyour bathtub up?2400:01:49,487 --> 00:01:50,529That I didn't do, no.2500:01:50,542 --> 00:01:52,758Do you know why we're supposeto fill our bathtubs up?2600:01:52,782 --> 00:01:54,564- No, I don't, never did.- I don't either.2700:01:56,070 --> 00:01:57,399If ever there was a moment2800:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,369for an emergency plan anda well-packed to-go kit,2900:02:00,370 --> 00:02:03,179this was it,but I didn't have either.3000:02:03,180 --> 00:02:06,479So, I relied on my ability to go3100:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,016to my family inWestchester County.3200:02:08,040 --> 00:02:08,959Mom.3300:02:08,983 --> 00:02:11,67418 safe miles fromthe eye of the storm,3400:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,633where last minute preparednessshopping started early.3500:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,339I just got luckyon the generator.3600:02:20,340 --> 00:02:22,769I became number 99out of a hundred.3700:02:22,770 --> 00:02:24,587There's no more generators.My name was on3800:02:24,611 --> 00:02:26,321the list, that's howI ended up with them.3900:02:26,345 --> 00:02:27,960I was here this morning at 5:30.4000:02:27,984 --> 00:02:30,129- What time were you there?- I was there at seven.4100:02:30,153 --> 00:02:31,029What were you doing?4200:02:31,043 --> 00:02:32,983And that's how Icame to find out that4300:02:33,007 --> 00:02:34,969my big brother Alex,a computer engineer4400:02:34,970 --> 00:02:39,858and competitive sailor, wasalso a closet disaster master.4500:02:39,859 --> 00:02:41,577The reason you haveto have a generator4600:02:41,601 --> 00:02:42,949is so you can run the sump pump.4700:02:42,950 --> 00:02:44,591Without thatyou're, you might as4800:02:44,615 --> 00:02:46,229well just kissyour house goodbye.4900:02:46,230 --> 00:02:47,679[Judith] How do you run it?5000:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,512On gas.5100:02:48,513 --> 00:02:50,595- [Judith] How much do you have?- I'll show you.5200:02:50,596 --> 00:02:54,109We have 10, 20,we have 25 gallons.5300:02:54,110 --> 00:02:56,549This is for a drill,this is for the search light.5400:02:56,550 --> 00:02:58,259Ellen's phone, my cell phone.5500:02:58,260 --> 00:03:00,169We can chop ourselvesout of the house.5600:03:00,170 --> 00:03:01,670We can also dig ourselves out.5700:03:03,078 --> 00:03:04,919By the way,do you like our escape?5800:03:04,920 --> 00:03:06,209[Judith] Are you serious?5900:03:06,210 --> 00:03:07,699Are we allowed to come to you6000:03:07,700 --> 00:03:09,273if you have power and we don't?6100:03:09,297 --> 00:03:10,340We'll let you.6200:03:10,364 --> 00:03:11,420- OK.- But besides,6300:03:11,444 --> 00:03:13,422we could always come get you.That's why the boat.6400:03:13,446 --> 00:03:14,488- In the boat?- Sure.6500:03:14,493 --> 00:03:15,883You're gonna putmom in that boat?6600:03:15,884 --> 00:03:17,389[Alex] If we have to.6700:03:17,390 --> 00:03:18,455I'm not telling her that.6800:03:18,456 --> 00:03:20,293- Don't tell her.- It'll freak her out.6900:03:21,860 --> 00:03:26,369You would not believe yourson, he has a boat7000:03:26,370 --> 00:03:31,308in case we can't get out,he could come and get us.7100:03:31,309 --> 00:03:32,909(laughing)7200:03:32,910 --> 00:03:34,612He has a boat?7300:03:34,613 --> 00:03:37,089[Announcer] In the meantime,evacuations are really moving7400:03:37,090 --> 00:03:40,009[Judith] Whichfortunately, we didn't need.7500:03:40,010 --> 00:03:42,346[Announcer] More downedpower lines in Babylon, with7600:03:42,370 --> 00:03:44,509explosive results and waterpoured into the streets7700:03:44,510 --> 00:03:46,279of Great South Bay.7800:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,530[Judith] Electricitywas a different story.7900:03:49,990 --> 00:03:52,073Mom, the lights keepgoing on and off.8000:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,632- Mike, you OK?- [Mike] Are you OK?8100:03:57,633 --> 00:03:58,465- Yeah.- OK.8200:03:58,466 --> 00:03:59,939And Judy's with me, I'm fine.8300:03:59,940 --> 00:04:01,567And I have,I have everything I need.8400:04:01,591 --> 00:04:02,800- Good, all right.- Good, good.8500:04:02,824 --> 00:04:04,326All right,so that'll do us right now.8600:04:04,350 --> 00:04:05,768Yeah, that's all,what can we do? On Wednesday the 25th November, the Green Film Festival were invited into a collaboration with the University's Film Studies Department and the Byre Theatre to host a discussion around their screening of Judith Helfand's 'Cooked: Survival by Zip Code'.. Additional selected credits include: editing on the documentary featuresWhen I Walk,Melting PlanetandBlue Vinylwhich premiered at Sundance in 2013, 2007 and 2002, respectively; editor and co-producer onMentor(Tribeca premier, 2006) and editor onChicks in White Satin, which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1994. She taught documentary production at NYUs undergraduate program for seven years, was filmmaker-in-residence at UW Madison in 2007 and 2009 where she taught environmental documentary production and co-taught and designed an intensive summer documentary boot camp for New School University. (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois School of Public Health), Orrin Williams (Food Systems Coordinator, Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion) | Moderator: Pamela Sherrod Anderson (Award-winning writer, filmmaker, playwright, journalist and educator), SATURDAY July 13th @ 5pm - Reframing the Disaster: Language and Messaging Around Systemic Poverty, Racism and our Climate Crisis, Panelists: Jahmal Cole (My Block My Hood My City), Juliana Pino (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization), Susy Schultz (Public Narrative) | Moderator: Sylvia Ewing (Elevate Energy), SUNDAY July 14th @ 2pm - Environmental Justice from Resilience to Resistance, Panelists: Kim Wasserman (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization), Joshi Radin, (Pilson Environmental Right and Reform Organization), Cheryl Johnson (People for Community Recovery), THURSDAY July 18th @ 8pm - Faith, Equity & Climate Justice, Panelists: Pastor Booker Vance (Elevate Energy), Rev. Helfands question, Why did people die in these particular Chicago neighborhoods?, suggests the outlines of a potential trial role play: Who or what is to blame? COOKED: Survival by Zip Code is adapted from Eric Klinenbergs ground-breaking book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. (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, [email protected] Films: 773-472-4366Tim Horsburgh, [email protected], 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. 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