Siskel/Jacobs Productions
American documentary production company
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Siskel/Jacobs Productions is a Chicago, Illinois-based documentary and film-production company.
| Industry | Motion pictures/Television |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Jon Siskel Greg Jacobs |
| Website | www.siskeljacobs.com |
History
Siskel/Jacobs Productions was founded in 2005 by filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs. [1] Siskel is the nephew of film critic Gene Siskel.[2]
Works
The company produced the History Channel special 102 Minutes That Changed America, which premiered on September 11, 2008[3] and became the second-most watched program in the network's history.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6][7][8]
