Cooked: Survival by Zip Code Film Screening
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1400 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35233
https://uab.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7409615In 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 industries: disaster preparedness. Along the way, Helfand forges inextricable links between extreme weather, extreme disparity, and extreme racism, daring to ask: what if a zip code was just a routing number and not a life-or-death sentence?
"Cooked" is an adaptation of Eric Klinenberg’s groundbreaking book "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." Learn more about the film by visiting CookedTheFilm.com.
This event is free, open to the public and co-sponsored by GASP and Lister Hill Center.
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