The film, which took home the Best Documentary award at Austin Film Festival, centers on Tina Cordova: an independent business woman who, after learning that she had stage four colon cancer, becomes the voice of the long-neglected, ignored and lied to communities still being devastated by America’s first nuclear bomb test, codename Trinity.
And that was from day one, when the official line concerning the seven-mile high mushroom cloud in the sky came from a fuel dump that had exploded and that there was nothing to worry about; that despite the high winds and storm clouds that were sure to spread the nuclear fallout of the dirtiest of bombs – packed with more plutonium that Hiroshima and Nagasaki – there was no need to evacuate. Meanwhile, the scientists got the hell away from the Trinity site.
But the brunt of that hellish firestorm was first felt by those poorer, browner communities that had settled those plains long before the scientists showed up, confiscated a large plot of land via imminent domain and then dropped a bomb with so much poison, that within a week, at least 300 babies died from drinking their mother’s radioactive breast milk.
Even Cordova’s niece recently got her cancer diagnosis, something their family considers almost inevitable and which continues to spur this grueling 18 years effort during which she helped produce a short community college documentary that caught the notice of the Emmy- and Peabody-award-winning Lipman, who got the backing for a feature-length documentary that follows Cordova as she records these tales of woe on her way to D.C.
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