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 afterwards for video Q&A with Judith Helfand, Director of "Cooked: Survival by Zip Code." Also present for discussion will be Servando Moreno from the United Nations Association Greater Chicago Chapter. Learn about opportunities for local action from the above panelists, as well as from JustRoots, Sinai Community Institute, North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council's (NLCCC) Health and Wellness sub-committee, and Green Mountain Energy. Facilitator: Reesheda Graham Washington, Asset Based Community Development Leader. Refreshments will be available.

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