Bio
Lois Lipman is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentarian who has field produced impactful social justice films worldwide for 30 years. While at CBS 60 Minutes, Lipman produced Til Death Do Us Part. This investigation into dowry deaths in India spurred an outcry that led to first convictions and arrests. It also won Best Documentary from the American Women in Radio and Television. Similar in purpose and style, Lipman’s current character-driven documentary that follows Tina Cordova and New Mexico’s Downwinders for several years is expected to catalyze reparations for Latinx people who developed cancer as a result of the Trinity Nuclear explosion.
While working for 60 Minutes, Lipman also developed more than twenty segments, including a piece about BBC Radio that won an Emmy, and a segment about Arthur Mitchell and Dance Theatre of Harlem that won a Peabody.
Press
"This film distills an astonishing amount of research into a highly engaging, devastating work—it is at once a history, a documentary, and a work of social justice and reparation. And perhaps this is why this remarkable documentary has not yet found a streaming service: it is more than a film. It is a call to action. To watch this film is to feel strongly allied with the downwinders’ demand for accountability. First We Bombed New Mexico locates this history where it belongs— not in the past, but in the present and in the future."
The Public Historian Journal: University of California Press, Dec 2025 by Prof Nora Wendl
Credits
EP - 4 times documentary Academy Award winner Doug Blush ACE, EP Jhane Myers (lead producer of Prey and Free Leonard Peltier)
