A television and documentary production company
About Us
Siskel/Jacobs Productions is a Chicago-based television and documentary production company. Since its founding in 2005, SJP has produced Head On, a two-hour special for Discovery Channel, and Forensics Under Fire, an episode of National Geographic's "Naked Science" series. The company is currently in production on a two-hour special for The History Channel called Voices of 9/11, and is developing a feature documentary about the annual "Louder Than a Bomb" high school team poetry slam competition in Chicago.
Prior to launching the company, co-founder GREG JACOBS served as VP/Chief Creative Officer at Towers Productions, where he oversaw the content of more than two hundred documentaries on five different networks, including A&E, The History Channel, The Weather Channel, Discovery Times, and CNN. During his seven years at Towers, Greg also produced, wrote, and supervised more than two-dozen other shows, including a number of mini-series and specials for The History Channel, and two documentaries on the Iraq War for Discovery Times. A graduate of Yale University, Greg has a master's degree in history from Ohio State, and is the author of Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools.
SJP co-founder JON SISKEL has developed, produced and directed documentaries filmed on location in Africa, Mongolia and Southeast Asia. He was executive producer and co-creator of the series "Fake Out", which ran for two seasons on Court TV. He has also produced shows for the A&E series American Justice, Investigative Reports, and Biography, and his work has been shown on The Travel Channel, Discovery, and The History Channel.
Siskel/Jacobs Productions
1807 W. Sunnyside Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
773.271.9500 Main
773.271.9504 Fax
773.655.0192 Greg
312.953.3271 Jon
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