From One Earth Film Fest:

FILM DESCRIPTION: 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. As “Cooked” links the heat wave’s devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deeply into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand uses her signature serious-yet-quirky-style as interlocutor and narrator to forge inextricable connections between the cataclysmic natural disasters we’re willing to see and prepare for, and the slow-motion disasters we’re not.

Judith Helfand/2018/75 min/Historical Perspectives, Social Justice, Climate Change

Stay after the film for a discussion with Oboi Reed of Equiticity and Akousa Gousby of Elevate Energy. Learn about local action opportunities from the above participants, as well as Faith in Place, Ecotellgent Design, The Nature Conservancy and Green Mountain Energy. Facilitator: Al Walker, Property Team Lead/Windsor Park Foundation Board Member, Windsor Park Evangelical Lutheran Church. Refreshments will be available.

Doors open 30 minutes before start time. Arrive early to avoid lines and get best seats. Teens and young adults encouraged to attend. "PG-13" May contain heavy themes, graphic images or language.