Siskel/Jacobs Productions

Siskel/Jacobs Productions
Siskel/Jacobs Productions
Industry	Motion pictures/Television
Founded	2005
Founder	Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Key people	Jon Siskel; Greg Jacobs
Website	www.siskeljacobs.com

Siskel/Jacobs Productions is a Chicago, Illinois-based documentary and film-production company.

History

Siskel/Jacobs Productions was founded in 2005 by filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs. Siskel is the nephew of film critic Gene Siskel.

Works

The company produced the History Channel special 102 Minutes That Changed America, which premiered on September 11, 2008 and became the second-most watched program in the network's history. The company has also produced a special for Discovery Channel and an episode for the National Geographic Channel's Naked Science series. In 2008, SJP is worked on its first feature documentary, Louder Than a Bomb, which follows four Chicago-area high school poetry teams as they compete in the world's largest youth slam. Recent SJP documentaries include No Small Matter (2019), a film about the importance of early childhood education; The Road Up (2020), a film following four participants in the Chicago job training program Cara as they attempt to find stable employment and escape poverty and oppression; and The Here/Now Project (2024), a film using found footage to chronicle disasters caused by climate change in 2021.

References

↑ "Former Kurtis and Towers producers open their own docs-for-cable network company", ReelChicago.com (February 20, 2005).
↑ "BrewsterConnections" (PDF). Brewster Academy. Spring 2010. p. 10. Retrieved 11 October 2012. A friend of [my uncle Gene Siskel] had just been made president of the Travel Channel and [Uncle Gene] suggested that I push my stories to him. …[I got hired] and I moved to L.A. ... .^{[dead link]}
↑ David Hinckley (September 11, 2008). "'102 Mins.' of the city's longest day", New York Daily News.
↑ Bill Gorman (September 15, 2008). "History Attracts Record Audience for 9/11 Special", TV by the Numbers blog.
↑ "About Us Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine". Siskel/Jacobs Productions.
↑ "No Small Matter". No Small Matter. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
↑ "The Road Up – A Documentary Film by Siskel Jacobs Productions". Retrieved 2025-05-30.
↑ "We're All In This Together". The Here Now Project - A film by Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel. Retrieved 2025-05-30.

Amy Wilschke. "Taking Care Of Business: Independent Film Producers Are Doing It For Themselves", Screen Magazine.
"No commercials during History Channel’s Sept. 11 airing of Siskel/Jacobs’ archive-driven 9/11 doc", ReelChicago.com (September 2, 2008).

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[1] "Former Kurtis and Towers producers open their own docs-for-cable network company", ReelChicago.com (February 20, 2005).

[2] "BrewsterConnections" (PDF). Brewster Academy. Spring 2010. p. 10. Retrieved 11 October 2012. A friend of [my uncle Gene Siskel] had just been made president of the Travel Channel and [Uncle Gene] suggested that I push my stories to him. …[I got hired] and I moved to L.A. ... .^{[dead link]}

[3] David Hinckley (September 11, 2008). "'102 Mins.' of the city's longest day", New York Daily News.

[4] Bill Gorman (September 15, 2008). "History Attracts Record Audience for 9/11 Special", TV by the Numbers blog.

[5] "About Us Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine". Siskel/Jacobs Productions.

[6] "No Small Matter". No Small Matter. Retrieved 2025-06-01.

[7] "The Road Up – A Documentary Film by Siskel Jacobs Productions". Retrieved 2025-05-30.

[8] "We're All In This Together". The Here Now Project - A film by Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel. Retrieved 2025-05-30.

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