The Spies Among Us
discussion follows with the filmmakersA victim of East Germany's Stasi secret police takes on a personal investigation decades later, offering a rare look at the data-driven surveillance state. Discussion follows.
A personal investigation into family secrets by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, takes a turn when he contacts the men who ran the system. These are the first dialogues between Stasi officers and a victim ever recorded. Through these encounters a terrifying mosaic is built of the lengths people go to maintain power in a dictatorship, as well as the indomitable human spirit that seeks truth and self-determination.
Premiering at SXSW and picking up a jury award at the New Hampshire Film Festival, this gripping documentary offers "a timely portrait of oppression and the truth-seeking determination needed to face it down" (IndieWire).
D: Gabriel Silverman and Jamie Coughlin Silverman, US, 2025, 1h34m
Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman are award-winning journalists-turned-documentary filmmakers, whose most recent film The Spies Among Us premiered at SXSW in 2025. Their first feature documentary, Transmilitary, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at SXSW in 2018 and received critical acclaim. TransMilitary was represented by Cinetic Media and distributed by Gravitas Ventures. The film screened at more than 100 film festivals worldwide, and the Silvermans were named to the 2018 Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch list by The Independent. Their production company, SideXSide Studios, is a global documentary firm that specializes in consequential and high-visibility non-fiction storytelling. SideXSide's first project was their 2016 Emmy-nominated New York Times Op-Doc, Transgender, At War and in Love.
Prior to SideXSide Studios, the Silvermans worked in leading newsrooms. Gabe was a video journalist at The Washington Post, where his work was recognized with more than a dozen awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for his investigative work, a White House News Photographers Award for Best Documentary, and two Emmy nominations. Jamie was the supervising producer for USA Today Sports, where she led editorial and branded video content strategy.
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