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Siskel/Jacobs Productions is a Chicago-based documentary film company headed by 2 Emmy-winning filmmakers.

Since 2005, S/J has built a reputation for engaging, entertaining films that tackle vital stories with integrity, complexity, emotion, and humor. Siskel/Jacobs Productions is a Chicago-based documentary production company headed by Emmy-winning filmmakers GregJacobs and Jon Siskel. Since its launch in 2005, S/J has built a reputation for engaging, entertaining films that tackle vital stories with

integrity, complexity, emotion, and humor. Check out our latest – a climate change film unlike any other: (https://herenowproject.com/)

04/21/2025

From Brooklyn to Siberia—a relentless barrage of fires, floods, and storms reveals that climate change is here, now. Join us at the Long Island Cinema Arts Center on April 23rd at 6:30 PM for a free screening of The Here Now Project and an engaging panel discussion featuring climate experts and thought leaders.
Presented by the Cornell Brooks Institute, Eleven Eleven Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy.

04/19/2025

San Francisco Climate Week is a community-powered event series presented by Climatebase that aims to bring together the climate community to connect, collaborate, and take action on climate change! The Here Now Project is thrilled to be a part of this great opportunity!

Join us at The Vogue Theatre on April 21 for a special screening and conversation hosted by journalist Molly Wood from the Everybody in the Pool podcast, featuring our co-director Greg Jacobs and Veronique Lafargue from Xooglers in Climate.

Come be a part of this incredible experience! We hope to see you there!

03/27/2025

Four years after its premiere at a pandemic-era drive-in, The Road Up is finally available to stream! If you want to laugh, cry, and meet some unforgettable people, give it a watch!

Four people participate at Cara, a Chicago job-training program, as they seek to make the long journey from rock bottom to stable employment. Throughout, they are guided by their mentor, Mr. Jesse, whose own past drives him to help others.

07/18/2024

Honored to announce that The Here Now Project is a finalist in the "Planet in Crisis" category at the 2024 Jackson Wild Media Awards!

2024 Media Awards Winners to be announced during the Grand Teton Awards Gala on Thursday, September 5, 2024 in Washington DC. 2024 Awards Ceremony Over 500 films entered the competition in 2024, with over 1,100 category entries from 74 different countries around the world. Finalists were selected by...

03/26/2024

Thrilled to announce that The Here Now Project will have its film festival World Premiere next month at Hot Docs! Screenings are April 26 and May 1, so tell all your Torontonian peeps to come see the movie...and us!

An international diary of the impact of climate change is constructed from thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage. Through the process, we witness the deep human resilience, resourcefulness and courage necessary to confront the world’s most pressing challenge.

01/12/2024

Siskel/Jacobs Productions is heading to the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, where our new film, The Here Now Project, will have its first public screening as part of the WEF’s Open Forum Climate Hub. Shout out to our amazing creative collaborators—John Farbrother, Katerina Simic, Kubilay Uner, Sarofsky, Another Country, Nolo Digital Film—along with our global team of footage producers and the more than 200 footage sources whose videos are in the film! HereNowProject.com

The first ever Climate Hub Davos is hosted by the Swiss non-profit GreenUp. This novel space brings together people working on climate and nature, and welcomes all those wanting to collaborate and be inspired to do more. With an open foyer and interactive programme, you are invited to visit and co-c...

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

The company’s latest production is The Road Up, a feature documentary about the intersection of poverty, addiction, and employment, seen through the lens of a transformative job training program in Chicago.

Most recently, Greg and Jon co-directed (with Danny Alpert from Kindling Group) No Small Matter, the first feature documentary to explore the power and potential impact of early childhood education. Completed in late 2018, No Small Matter has already begun moving the needle on the issue at a national scale through hundreds of screenings and an ambitious impact campaign.

Prior to No Small Matter, 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 to compete in the world’s largest youth slam. The winner of 17 festival prizes, including 10 audience awards, Louder Than a Bomb was hailed as “one of the 10 best documentaries of 2011” by Roger Ebert, and received a perfect 100% rating on rottentomatoes.com. In January of 2012, Louder Than a Bomb had its world television premiere on the Oprah Winfrey Network, as an official selection of the “OWN Documentary Club”. The film was also selected for the U.S. State Department’s 2011 American Documentary Showcase, and received the 2011 Humanitas Prize for documentaries.

In 2008, SJP produced the Emmy-winning History Channel special 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. More than five million viewers tuned in to the premiere, making it the most-watched special in the network’s history, and the program has now been seen by over forty million viewers worldwide. 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. It was also named the Best Nonfiction TV Episode of 2008 by iTunes.

SJP produced six episodes of the groundbreaking “Witness” series for the National Geographic Channel, including Witness: Katrina, which won the 2011 News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming. Jon and Greg also wrote, directed and produced Head On, a two-hour special about the obsessive subculture of “team demolition derby” in Joliet, Illinois, which aired on Discovery in December 2006. 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.

In 2016, SJP produced the documentary Unexpected Justice: The Rise of John Paul Stevens, which premiered on WTTW in Chicago and aired on over 200 PBS stations around the country. Jon and Greg also served as the U.S. Executive Producers of 1916: The Irish Rebellion, a landmark, three-part documentary series, narrated by Liam Neeson, commemorating the centennial of the Easter Rising. The series, which aired around the world in 2016, won the American Public Television Programming Excellence Award, along with the Irish Film and Television Academy’s award for best documentary series.

In 2018, SJP served as Executive Producers on Grace, an award-winning documentary short produced and directed by Rachel Pikelny.

In addition to its film and television work, SJP continues to produce high-quality short videos for corporate and non-profit clients, including Google, Eli Lilly, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Ounce of Prevention Fund, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, and others.