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"Downwinders" The Film

My name is Laura Greenwood and I am starting this Go Fund Me page for the film, “DOWNWINDERS”.  Upon completion of the film, I hope to raise money to help get the film seen by a wide audience  and for it to have an impact on all who see it.  The film will help the Tularosa Basin Downwinders gain the attention of Congress and receive the help that they've been denied for decades.  Finally, the history that has been buried for years will come to light through this film.

The support of this film means everything to us.  It will show the world that the U.S. Government has been silent for 75 years, never acknowledging the U.S. citizens who were the victims of the first atomic bomb.  The Downwinders would be so grateful for the help and support you would so graciously give to help this film be seen.

About the film: 

Lois Lipman, the Director/ Producer of DOWNWINDERS” is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker.  For many years developing award winning stories worldwide for CBS 60 Minutes. 

When the US military secretly tested the bomb that would end World War II, thousands of New Mexican citizens lived 12 to 50 miles away.  Irradiated fallout fell like snow for days on their land.  The military fled without warning residents, and a plague of cancers followed.  More than seven decades after the devastating Trinity Bomb, a Latina cancer survivor, Tina Cordova, catalyzes a movement, demanding that Congress acknowledge the plague of cancers and lethal radiation produced by the world’s first nuclear bomb.  Finally, the Downwinders get their dramatic day at the Capitol.  But justice is again delayed.  As the 75th anniversary approaches, DOWNWINDERS follows Tina as she propels her community’s story to the forefront of the global nuclear conversation.  Other Downwinders from around the world have been compensated, but the survivors of Trinity are yet to be recognized.

“A few people were probably overexposed, but they couldn’t prove it – and we couldn’t prove it – so we just assumed we got away with it”.

Dr. Louis Hempelmann

Medical Director, Manhattan Project
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Donations 

  • Kimberly Stuart
    • $50 
    • 1 yr
  • Christy Pino
    • $200 
    • 2 yrs
  • ron lipton
    • $25 
    • 2 yrs
  • Karen R Vaughan
    • $50 
    • 2 yrs
  • Leanne Senter-Barbour
    • $108 
    • 3 yrs
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Organizer and beneficiary

Laura Greenwood
Organizer
Kerrville, TX
Lois Lipman
Beneficiary
Raised $530 from 8 donations

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