Siskel/Jacobs Productions

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

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

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]