Currently Browsing: Judith Helfand
Peabody award-winning director Judith Helfand’s documentary Cooked: Survival by Zip Code is now screening for a two week-run at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through July 25.
Detailing the city’s deadliest summer heat wave in 1995, Cooked delves into the politics of the disaster – the shameful death toll higher in the poor neighborhoods of the South and West sides.… read more.