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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

The Killing Floor

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Tuesday, June 23: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (replaces The Infiltrators)
Free, online via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here
Guest host: Tom Zaniello, author "Working Stiffs: Union Maids, Red and RiffRaff (An Expanded Guide to Films About Labor)"

Judith Helfand's 2019 film -- which suggests there may be no difference between an epidemic and a catastrophe -- now looks eerily prescient. In 1995 Chicago was hit by a record-breaking heat wave, so hot that the lives of 739 residents were lost in a single week; mostly poor, African-American, and elderly residents. This searing, offbeat documentary connects the dots to more recent natural disasters, provocatively exploring the ways in which class, race and zip code predetermine our chances of survival during environmental crises.

Director: Judith Helfand; Starring: Judith Helfand, Eric Klinenberg, Linda Rae Murray
Genres: Documentary; 81 min; 2019

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Starts Friday, June 19: The Killing Floor
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Presented by the AFI SILVER THEATRE; a portion of the proceeds supports AFI Silver Theatre, longtime DC LaborFest partner.

In his first feature, director Bill Duke (The Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover) traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the Chicago's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Winner of the Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival, 1985. Starring Damien Leake (Serpico, Apocalypse Now), Alfre Woodard (Crooklyn, Down in the Delta). Screenplay by African American playwright Leslie Lee.

New 4K restoration. Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, laboratory services and DCP by UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Media Lab. Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach, Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA Film & Television Archive.

DIRECTED BY BILL DUKE
UNITED STATES | 1985 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Opening Date: Available to stream starting Friday, June 19

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