SISKEL/JACOBS PRODUCTIONS is a Chicago-based television and documentary production company founded in 2005 by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs.

Most recently, Greg and Jon produced and directed the documentary feature Louder Than a Bomb, which follows four Chicago-area high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's largest youth slam. The film premiered in March 2010 at the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it won both the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for best film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition for films that celebrate social justice and activism. An official selection of the 2010 DocuWeeks Theatrical Showcase, Louder Than a Bomb will have a weeklong theatrical run at the IFC Center in New York City in August, followed by a weeklong run at the ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles. The film will also be shown at the Woods Hole Film Festival in August, and was an official selection of the Little Rock Film Festival in June.

Prior to Louder Than a Bomb, SJP produced the Emmy-winning History Channel program 102 Minutes That Changed America, which reconstructs—in real time—the events of 9/11 in New York City, using only sound and video from that morning. The two-hour special premiered without commercial interruption on September 11, 2008, followed by I-Witness to 9/11, a look at the stories behind the footage. More than five million viewers tuned in to the premiere, making it the second most-watched telecast in the network’s history, and the program has now been seen by over twenty million viewers worldwide. One of the most acclaimed documentaries of recent years, 102 Minutes won three Primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Nonfiction Special, as well as the Most Innovative Program Award at the 2009 History Makers International Summit, a CINE Masters Series Award, a Silver Telly, and a FOCAL International Award. The show was also named the Best Nonfiction TV Episode of 2008 by iTunes. Most importantly, 102 Minutes has become standard viewing in high school and college classrooms across the country, a way for teachers to introduce their students to the emotional and historical impact of 9/11.

In March 2009, Siskel/Jacobs Productions was named to Realscreen Magazine's "Global 100"—its annual list of the world's most influential factual production companies. The company has two archive-based shows premiering on the National Geographic Channel this summer—Witness: Katrina and Witness: D.C. 9/11. In 2006, SJP produced Head On, a two-hour special for Discovery about the obsessive subculture of "team demolition derby" in Joliet, Illinois.

SJP 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 award-winning shows and series for A&E, History, Discovery, The Weather Channel, and CNN. 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 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 History. Jon serves on the board of directors of Free Spirit Media, a Chicago-based youth media organization, as well as the Gene Siskel Film Center.

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