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 edit 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 edit 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 . as of 2008 sjp is working 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 references edit 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. ... . 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 . siskel jacobs productions . 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 . this chicago related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about an entertainment company in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title siskel jacobs productions & oldid 743337151 categories companies established in 2005companies based in chicagofilm production companies of the united statestelevision production companies of the united statesdocumentary film production companieschicago stubsunited states entertainment company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view