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More than a movie: Oppenheimer Festival explores the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project
More than a movie: Oppenheimer Festival explores the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project
“First We Bombed New Mexico” by Lois Lipman will have several showings at the 2024 Oppenheimer Festival in Los Alamos.
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“First We Bombed New Mexico” will screen Aug. 3 with a Q&A session with director and producer Lois Lipman. The documentary “tells the story that Oppenheimer leaves out,” about the world’s first nuclear bomb that left thousands of Native American and Hispanic New Mexicans exposed to catastrophic levels of radioactive fallout.
‘Oppenheimer’ Fanfare Likely to Fuel Record Attendance at New Mexico’s Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Site
With a sense of urgency, filmmaker spotlights New Mexico’s victims of nuclear testing
‘First We Bombed New Mexico,’ a 2023 documentary about Trinity atomic bomb fallout, premieres at Berkshire International Film Festival this weekend
Mendocino Film Festival: Meet the attending filmmakers
The festival will offer 65 compelling, engrossing, and entertaining films on a wide variety of subjects and themes. 42 filmmakers, film subjects, and actors will be in attendance to talk about their creative inspirations, chat with filmgoers, and answer questions after their movies.
Berkshire International Film Festival documentary selection shows the past is still present in today’s world
The Triplex will screen "Unbroken," the story of the daughter of a Holocaust survivor uncovering her family's past, and "First We Bombed New Mexico," the tale of a victim of the fallout from the Trinity test seeking justice for those affected by nuclear testing, on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, respectively.
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Mendocino Film Festival information about 33 mins from start.
New Mexicans affected by radiation waiting for federal government compensation
Rep. Gabe Vasquez is joining others to urge the House to vote on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
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Here are indigenous peoples from numerous states across the country whose families and communities where seriously harmed by the Manhattan project and subsequent arms race, begging us to consider the cost imposed on them.
Take Action: Tell Congress that Downwinders Deserve Respect
From May 17 to 19, a special screening of a new documentary, “First We Bombed New Mexico,” will be available online. It tells the tragic story of the many “downwinders" whose health was adversely affected by the fallout from the July 1945 Trinity nuclear test and their betrayal by the U.S. government.
Vasquez Pushes for RECA to Include NM in House Armed Services Committee Hearing
In an exchange with Secretary Austin during a House Armed Services Committee Hearing, Vasquez requested an apology to New Mexico’s victims and confirmed Secretary Austin’s support for expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
At Annapolis Film Festival, new documentary shows side of nuclear test ‘Oppenheimer’ did not tell
“First We Bombed New Mexico” will be available online to view for free from May 10 to 12. To receive access, visit watch.showandtell.film/watch/firstwebombednm. For more information about the documentary, visit firstwebombednewmexico.com.
AMERICA DISSECTED PODAST | The Other Side of Oppenheimer
Last summer’s blockbuster “Oppenheimer” took home best picture for a stirring portrayal of the man behind the world’s most dangerous weapon. But there’s a part the story left out: the devastation wrought by nuclear weapons testing on communities here in the US. Abdul reflects on the broader fallout of producing weapons of war. Then he talks to Tina Cordova, co-founder and Executive Director of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, and Dr. Chanese Forté, a scientist with the Global Security Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists about the testing fallout — and what it spells for the future.
Downwinders see themselves in new Trinity documentary
New Mexico-based filmmaker Lois Lipman’s documentary, “First We Bombed New Mexico,” was a recent hit at the ninth annual Las Cruces International Film Festival, telling the stories of the generations of New Mexicans impacted by the 1945 test of the atomic bomb.
Las Cruces Film festival to feature “First We Bombed New Mexico”
The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium is offering free bus rides to the Las Cruces Film Festival to watch “First We Bombed New Mexico” at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 5.
In Oppenheimer’s Fallout, Atom Bomb Test Survivors Lobby for Congressional Help
The documentary "First We Bombed New Mexico" covers the damage done to Trinity's "downwinders."
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“First We Bombed New Mexico” — an antithesis, of sorts, to “Oppenheimer” — opens the fest with a chronicle of the unacknowledged environmental fallout from the U.S. government’s nuclear tests, including cancer experienced by generations of Indigenous and Latinx families who lived in the region.
The real story behind 'Oppenheimer'
Oscar-nominated 'Oppenheimer' suggests that the New Mexico test site for the atomic bomb was deserted before scientists arrived there. But a documentary called 'First We Bombed New Mexico' sheds new light on the severe impact the radiation had on residents in the area.
A Fest-Goer’s Guide to TBA-Land
Off in its own thematic corner of the doc section, First We Bombed New Mexico is a potent social activism-fueled report on the ongoing and government-neglected health hazards of fallout from the Trinity a-bomb test. The film’s timing, in the shadow of Oppenheimer release and hubbub, is impeccable.
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...a packed house saw the documentary First We Bombed New Mexico, a sobering and powerful talk about the ongoing dark legacy of radiation related cancer in the area around the atom bomb’s first blast in New Mexico and the impassioned activist struggling to bring the tragedy to public —and governmental — light.
Scientist calls on Oppenheimer stars, crew to help downwinders
Their stories, untold in Oppenheimer, are the basis for Lois Lipman’s documentary, First We Bombed New Mexico, which premiered at the Santa Fe International Film Festival in October, winning best new documentary feature, and has been screening at film festivals around the country since.
Exclusive First We Bombed New Mexico Trailer Previews Nuclear Documentary
ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive First We Bombed New Mexico trailer for the documentary that focuses on those affected by the 1945 Trinity Bomb detonation. The film will be screening at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 8, 9, and 10.
Advocates fear compensation for radiation victims could end with defense bill deal
A bipartisan amendment to the Senate version of the NDAA, which passed with a supermajority in August, would expand the law to cover Idaho, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Guam and Colorado, as well as extending it for a further 19 years.
‘First We Bombed New Mexico’ premieres at Santa Fe International Film Festival
“After Oppenheimer, people said, ‘Well, we saw the bomb go up but what happened when it landed? How did it impact people?’ And that story has not been told and it’s the extremely important narrative of the people of New Mexico,” Lipman said.
Latino Business Report Podcast Presents: Revealing the Untold Story: A Counter-Narrative of ’Oppenheimer’ - the Movie
Join us as we shine a critical light on how Latino and indigenous families who lived in the region were deliberately kept in the dark about their perilous exposure to high levels of radiation.
Visitors tour New Mexico atomic site in likely record attendance fueled by 'Oppenheimer' fanfare
Thousands of visitors are expected at the Trinity Site, a designated National Historic Landmark that's usually closed to the public because of its proximity to the impact zone for missiles fired at White Sands Missile Range.
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"Oppenheimer" brings painful memories for New Mexico Hispanics
"The new movie "is nothing but an over-glorification of the science and the scientists, again, with no reflection on the harm done to the people in New Mexico," Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, which advocates for families affected by the Trinity Test, tells Axios."
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No ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb’s fallout
"According to a new study, the fallout floated to 46 states, Mexico and Canada within 10 days. In 28 of 33 New Mexico counties, it estimates the accumulation of radioactive material was higher than required under the federal compensation program."
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Accounting for Unfissioned Plutonium from the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test
"Two possible modes of intake of plutonium from Trinity are most important with respect to potential health effects: inhalation of descending fallout and inhalation at later times from the resuspension of activity on the surface of the ground."
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A Deadly Love Affair: New Mexico, Physics, and the Film Oppenheimer
"In southern New Mexico, the communities surrounding the Trinity site continue to deal with the legacy of illness and death created by the plutonium bomb called the Gadget. New research shows that fallout from the Trinity test reached forty-six states plus Canada and Mexico."
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