Each year states compete to attract multinational companies, giving aways billions in tax incentives for the promise of jobs. Often the companies take much more than they’re worth. JEFFERSON explores this issue through a West Virginia community fighting to stop an international manufacturing plant from being built in their backyard.
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GABRIEL SILVERMAN, Director/Writer
SILVERMAN’s debut feature, TRANSMILITARY, premiered at SXSW 2018 where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and received critical acclaim. Silverman was named to the 10 Filmmakers to Watch list by The Independent. He began his career as a journalist at The Washington Post, where he won more than a dozen awards for his reporting, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for his investigative work, a White House News Photographers Award for Best Documentary, & two Emmy nominations. Silverman is an IFP Documentary Lab Fellow, RIAS Fellow, and his projects have received funding from The Rogovy Foundation, the GLAAD Media Institute, the Frameline Completion Fund, and many others.
JAMIE COUGHLIN, Producer/writer
COUGHLIN is a journalist and creative producer. She is the recipient of a White House News Photographers Award for Best Documentary, was nominated for an Emmy, and is a RIAS fellow. TRANSMILITARY, Coughlin’s feature debut which she produced and wrote, premiered at SXSW 2018, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and received critical acclaim. Coughlin was named to the 10 Filmmakers to Watch list by The Independent. Her films have received funding from The Rogovy Foundation, the GLAAD Media Institute, the Frameline Completion Fund, and many others. She and Silverman started SideXSide Studios 2015 after Coughlin left USA Today.