Use the HTML below. We could call it a Poverty Emergency Plan instead, or the Remedying Social Evils Plan. Helfand is a field-builder who has helped reshape the documentary landscape by co-founding two critical organizations -- Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Average deaths by tornado in Chicago: one. Cook County hosted a limited public screening of the documentary, COOKED: Survival By Zip Code, with a panel discussion and live Q&A on Thursday, September 17 at 5:30 pm. 100:00:02,504 --> 00:00:05,254(relaxing music)200:00:11,362 --> 00:00:14,445(light guitar music)300:00:15,786 --> 00:00:19,036(musical horn blaring)400:00:23,155 --> 00:00:28,155(waves crashing) (somber music)500:00:36,370 --> 00:00:39,479[Judith] What's the bestway to prepare for disaster?600:00:39,480 --> 00:00:42,469It's a question lots ofpeople are asking these days,700:00:42,470 --> 00:00:45,719as the planet heats up andwe find ourselves facing800:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,035one unprecedenteddisaster after another.900:00:49,036 --> 00:00:52,036(people chattering)1000:00:54,656 --> 00:00:55,815New Jersey or something1100:00:55,816 --> 00:00:58,001to get the fishnet. "45700:24:00,800 --> 00:24:05,799And so, in that spirit, I'menraged almost all of the time.45800:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,469I'm of that generation,so yes, I was enraged.45900:24:08,470 --> 00:24:10,649Was I surprised or shocked?46000:24:10,650 --> 00:24:13,259No, I know what happensduring heatwaves.46100:24:13,260 --> 00:24:15,989And I could see that the citywas not responding accordingly.46200:24:15,990 --> 00:24:18,409And even if thecity had responded46300:24:18,410 --> 00:24:22,679in a more appropriate way,we would've seen differences,46400:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,669hopefully not as great,between poor communities46500:24:25,670 --> 00:24:27,939that are under-resourcedand communities46600:24:27,940 --> 00:24:30,069that are better resourced.46700:24:30,070 --> 00:24:33,639This is a map thathas two things going on46800:24:33,640 --> 00:24:34,969at the same time.46900:24:34,970 --> 00:24:37,639We've put these circlesin those communities47000:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,209that have the highestpoverty rates.47100:24:40,210 --> 00:24:44,519And then what we've done is,we've shaded in the communities47200:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,349that had the highestmortality rates from the heat.47300:24:48,350 --> 00:24:51,399And as you can see,they're almost perfect overlaps.47400:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,499So the question is,did people die of the heat,47500:24:53,500 --> 00:24:55,449or did they die ofthe social conditions47600:24:55,450 --> 00:24:56,829in these neighborhoods?47700:24:56,830 --> 00:24:58,049And the answer is both.47800:24:58,050 --> 00:25:01,439Had the heat not occurred, theywouldn't have died that week47900:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,999that's for sure, but theywould've died too soon anyway,48000:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,790and the socialconditions place them48100:25:10,589 --> 00:25:14,899in a ambiance, or anenvironment in which the heat48200:25:14,900 --> 00:25:17,289would be most likelyto strike these people,48300:25:17,290 --> 00:25:18,910and to kill them.48400:25:18,911 --> 00:25:21,578(serious music)48500:25:32,322 --> 00:25:34,469The beginning ofthis project I decided48600:25:34,470 --> 00:25:36,429I was gonna kind ofadapt this phrase48700:25:36,430 --> 00:25:37,597that the coroners use,48800:25:37,841 --> 00:25:39,092{\an8}which is to say that,48900:25:39,117 --> 00:25:43,946{\an8}"We study death in orderto better understand49000:25:43,947 --> 00:25:46,139{\an8}and protect life. She taught documentary production at NYUs undergraduate program for seven years, was filmmaker-in-residence at UW Madison in 2007 and 2009 where she taught environmental documentary production and co-taught and designed an intensive summer documentary boot camp for New School University. Vesselpremiered at the SXSW 2014, where it won a Special Jury Award for Political Courage and the Audience Award. The Daley administration made a City Emergency Heat Plan after the 1995 disaster. Flowers whispers, No. She smiles sadly. Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Professor, Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University, Author, Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina'This film is searing, smart and insightfulThe film asks important questions with humor, humility, and humanity. It follows the 1995 Chicago heat wave which resulted in the deaths of 739 people, primarily affecting poor and disadvantaged communities. Rethinking Schools. "106600:57:43,175 --> 00:57:44,758[Judith] Buildingsare boarded up, there's106700:57:44,783 --> 00:57:46,701miles of empty lots,there's a lot of abandoned106800:57:46,726 --> 00:57:49,319I wondered about thatterm, like it was.106900:57:49,347 --> 00:57:53,310Why not better than before,or prepared for the future?107000:57:54,670 --> 00:57:56,799So when GeneralHeltzel invited me to107100:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,699a federally-funded,seven-state, week-long107200:57:59,700 --> 00:58:03,093disaster preparednessexercise, I went.107300:58:05,447 --> 00:58:08,619Oye. Directed by Judith Helfand. The maps showed too they are food deserts, filled with vacant lots. He has taught filmmaking at Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Come and discuss Cooked: Survival by Zipcode, a 2018 documentary about the disastrous Chicago heatwave of 1995 that examines issues of racial, social and environmental justice. In Highland Park, MI an unelected, state-appointed Emergency Financial, Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. But Helfand realized the heat wave and its victims were representative of global concerns, as climate change and inequality made for more human disasters, as with Katrina. And the outrage.' Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune'[Helfand] makes a persuasive argument that it's time to broaden the definition of disaster--to include the vast and ongoing economic and community inequities.' Helfand shows us a map of Chicago, with almost perfect overlaps between race, poverty, and heat wave deaths. Sparking democracy through documentary since 1966, Kartemquin is a collaborative center empowering filmmakers who create documentaries that foster a more engaged and just society. Cooked is a film that gives names and faces to the concept of environmental racism. All told, David has edited some fifteen projects with Kartemquin Films (see partial list below). During the crisis, Mayor Richard M. Daley tried to lay the blame for high mortality rates on black families, saying they should take better care of their elders and check in with them more. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code John Griswold February 16, 2020 A new documentary, Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, is now streaming on PBS. Leichter directed/producedA Days Work, A Days Pay, in association with ITVS, which follows three welfare recipients in New York City, and designed/directed the films 5-year audience engagement campaign. Judith Helfand (Actor, Director) Format: DVD. web pages (laughing)100800:55:04,243 --> 00:55:07,689This is the map of the areathat we were covering, it's100900:55:07,690 --> 00:55:09,659Six Midwest states,101000:55:09,660 --> 00:55:12,217where the New Madridearthquake zone is.101100:55:12,232 --> 00:55:13,581[Judith] But ifit was really bad,101200:55:13,605 --> 00:55:15,106where would they gethit on your shirt?101300:55:15,130 --> 00:55:17,629Oh it'd be like,the whole Midwest.101400:55:17,654 --> 00:55:20,323Think about all the bridgesyou crossed getting here,101500:55:20,365 --> 00:55:21,908they'll all be gone.101600:55:21,950 --> 00:55:23,426If you don't knowwhat the plan is,101700:55:23,451 --> 00:55:25,243you may not have a plan.101800:55:25,260 --> 00:55:27,409I'm not here toscare you to death.101900:55:27,410 --> 00:55:30,303I can, but I won't.102000:55:30,799 --> 00:55:33,385Catastrophic ice,it's pretty much the worst102100:55:33,410 --> 00:55:34,962anyone has ever seen.102200:55:34,987 --> 00:55:37,279Lightning has killedat least 67 people102300:55:37,299 --> 00:55:38,364in the United States.102400:55:38,389 --> 00:55:41,056(light buzzing)102500:55:41,970 --> 00:55:43,819[Judith] After a dayand a half of lectures,102600:55:43,820 --> 00:55:47,729keynotes and workshops,one thing was pretty clear.102700:55:47,730 --> 00:55:49,989While disastersthreaten everyone,102800:55:49,990 --> 00:55:52,879disaster preparednessis a luxury.102900:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,749It's for communitieswho are stable enough103000:55:54,750 --> 00:55:57,929in the present toworry about the future.103100:55:57,930 --> 00:56:00,623I've got apreparedness kit with me.103200:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,779[Judith] But what ifyou can't even conceive of103300:56:03,780 --> 00:56:07,973a to-go kit because you needa to-get-through-the-week kit?103400:56:09,270 --> 00:56:12,520(light, serious music)103500:56:14,711 --> 00:56:17,647This is the disasterthat I started working on.103600:56:17,672 --> 00:56:19,142Excessive heat, Chicago.103700:56:19,167 --> 00:56:21,280Right, it's a heat death map.103800:56:22,890 --> 00:56:24,909These grays areasare the poorest,103900:56:24,910 --> 00:56:27,609sort of neighborhoodsin the city.104000:56:27,610 --> 00:56:29,259So here's the big question.104100:56:29,260 --> 00:56:31,279What if we redefine disaster104200:56:31,280 --> 00:56:35,470as extreme pernicious poverty?104300:56:35,482 --> 00:56:36,524Mm.104400:56:39,069 --> 00:56:41,088[Judith] I didn't wannamake anyone uncomfortable.104500:56:41,112 --> 00:56:42,735(both laughing nervously)104600:56:42,736 --> 00:56:46,163But frankly, who's comfortabletalking about race and class?104700:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,809And even though I knew Imight be putting some people104800:56:49,810 --> 00:56:51,869on the spot bytrying to get them104900:56:51,870 --> 00:56:54,173to re-imagine thedefinition of disaster,105000:56:55,260 --> 00:56:56,510I couldn't resist trying.105100:56:57,470 --> 00:56:59,677How are you gonna do that?105200:57:02,550 --> 00:57:04,429What we're looking for,what we're trying to do105300:57:04,430 --> 00:57:06,259here today is kinda deal with105400:57:06,260 --> 00:57:08,763a one-time event type situation.105500:57:10,630 --> 00:57:13,843Poverty is a culturalissue because we accept it.105600:57:15,452 --> 00:57:17,319Pure and simple, we accept it.105700:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,389So then, isn't there away to just think about105800:57:19,390 --> 00:57:22,275economic development asdisaster preparedness?105900:57:23,140 --> 00:57:25,099{\an8}If you're asking mecan emergency management106000:57:25,100 --> 00:57:29,159{\an8}solve the poverty issues,I can tell you, no, we can't.106100:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,400{\an8}Emergency management cannotsolve those problems.106200:57:31,663 --> 00:57:34,040'Cause the systems thatwe have now are all about,106300:57:35,210 --> 00:57:37,609we've had a majordisaster, come back in106400:57:37,610 --> 00:57:40,129and restore thatcommunity to like it was.106500:57:40,130 --> 00:57:43,155In fact, the FEMA regulationssay, "Like it was. I highly recommend this film for broadening awareness of the links between environmental justice, social justice, and poverty.' He is currently editing the documentary featureMy Ascension, about teenage suicide. On Wednesday the 25th November, the Green Film Festival were invited into a collaboration with the Universitys Film Studies Department and the Byre Theatre to host a discussion around their screening of Judith Helfands Cooked: Survival by Zip Code. "42000:21:59,816 --> 00:22:02,659{\an8}(light, serious music)42100:22:02,660 --> 00:22:04,419{\an8}[Judith] The immensityof the death toll42200:22:04,420 --> 00:22:05,832{\an8}got summed up by this image,42300:22:06,454 --> 00:22:08,707which is not whatyou'd expect to see42400:22:08,732 --> 00:22:12,075in a suburban cemeteryin America's heartland.42500:22:13,450 --> 00:22:14,829[Announcer] 41people were buried42600:22:14,830 --> 00:22:17,079in a potter's fieldnear Chicago today,42700:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,359forgotten victims of thissummer's deadly heatwave.42800:22:20,360 --> 00:22:22,119Their bodies had lain since July42900:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,223in the county morgue, unclaimed.43000:22:25,940 --> 00:22:28,763We had the traditionalburial liturgy.43100:22:30,860 --> 00:22:33,123We had the memorialservice here.43200:22:35,770 --> 00:22:37,639{\an8}Starting up here,and coming down here,43300:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,420{\an8}past right up to themonument, yes.43400:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,700Claude Sanders,William Reedsville,43500:22:47,670 --> 00:22:50,763Lydia Payne, Ethel Young,43600:22:51,650 --> 00:22:56,399Michael Terino, John Kinsinger,43700:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,839Joe Stone, Helen Stegman,43800:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,959Richard Jones, Jose Molina,43900:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,203Mildred Kaldig, Robert Shaffer.44000:23:11,339 --> 00:23:13,039[Judith] It waspractically Fall,44100:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,349and for most Chicagoans,back to business as usual,44200:23:16,350 --> 00:23:17,984before the cityfinally announced44300:23:17,985 --> 00:23:20,053the official heat death numbers.44400:23:21,071 --> 00:23:22,989{\an8}There are some stunningnew figures from the44500:23:23,011 --> 00:23:25,329{\an8}Chicago Health Departmentdramatically increasing44600:23:25,354 --> 00:23:27,934{\an8}the already tragic deathtoll from July's heatwave.44700:23:28,251 --> 00:23:32,005The city now says 733Chicago residents died,44800:23:32,030 --> 00:23:34,819adding more than 200to the original total.44900:23:34,820 --> 00:23:37,119[Judith] And withinweeks, the final death tally45000:23:37,120 --> 00:23:40,646had to be adjusted yetagain, to 739,45100:23:40,647 --> 00:23:44,763the equivalent of two jumbojets crashing in mid-air.45200:23:45,900 --> 00:23:48,989Did you feel a sense ofoutrage at that number45300:23:48,990 --> 00:23:49,893when it came out?45400:23:50,930 --> 00:23:52,880I want to answerthis very carefully.45500:23:54,970 --> 00:23:57,456James Baldwin said,"To be black in America45600:23:57,457 --> 00:24:00,799is to be enragedalmost all of the time. She has just completed LOVE & STUFF, launching in 2020. Now, before I give you Usually, the words look similar to English words so it is very important to pay attention to spelling. Meanwhile, 3,000 die every year within a five-mile radius, from preventable health problems. Do you really think its about the heat? Helfand asks Geraldine Flowers, Church Elder, Sweet Holy Baptist Church. Helfand, Judith (film producer) The film had its world premiere at DOC NYC on November 11, 2018. That is, until an extreme weather event hits and they are made exponentially more deadly and visible. Print. 989 Wyldewood Dr. L1G 4G2. She continues to be actively involved as a Senior Creative Consultant. When We Walkwill premiere at Hot Docs in April 2019. See production, box office & company info, Self - Granddaughter of Alberta Washington, Self - Forensic Scientist, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Self - Church Elder, Sweet Holy Baptist Church, Self - Gatling's Chapel and Funeral Services, Self - Chief Environment Officer, City of Chicago 2005-2009, Self - Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Self - Intake Supervisor, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Self - Retired Chief Medical Officer, Cook County Department of Public Health, Yo, Ron? Harlem Street Singerpremiered at DOC NYC in 2013 and was released theatrically in 2014. 2023 Independent Television Service (ITVS). Lorry Kikta, Film Threat'Cooked: Survival by Zip Code shines a light on the issues of poverty, race, class, and education that underlie how natural disasters take lives.' In 10 years, that is 32,000 deaths, just from racism in the City of Chicago, he says. 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