Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
United States | 2019
In 1995 Chicago was hit by a record-breaking heat wave, so hot that roads melted and the lives of 739 residents were lost in a single week; mostly poor, African-American and elderly residents. Using this tragedy as a springboard, this searing doc connects the dots to more recent natural disasters, provocatively exploring the ways in which class, race and zip code predetermine our chances of survi…
