A Documentary by Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel

Louder Than a Bomb is a film about passion, competition, teamwork, and trust. It’s about the joy of being young, and the pain of growing up. It’s about speaking out, making noise, and finding your voice.

It also just happens to be about poetry.

A documentary feature intended for theatrical release, Louder Than a Bomb tells the stereotype-confounding stories of four Chicago-area high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the tempestuous lives of these exceptional kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. This is not “high school poetry” as we often think of it. This is language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. Set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s historic primary campaign, Louder Than a Bomb paints a powerful and timely portrait of the Obama generation, from the heart of the president’s hometown.

Louder Than a Bomb had its world premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival in March 2010, where it won both the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for best film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition for films that celebrate social justice and activism. For more information, contact ltab@siskeljacobs.com


Typing

Director – Jack C. Newell
Writer – Ron Falzone
Producer – Ron Falzone & Jack C. Newell

Typing is the story of what happens when the creative process crashes head first into the wall of stereotypes and clichés.  It features writer/actor/comedy legend Tim Kazurinsky and Steppenwolf ensemble member Francis Guinan as two tired MGM screenwriters forced into the impossible task of having to write a Robert Montgomery movie that features sex, adventure and a dog.


Postales

Writer/Director – Josh Hyde
Producer – Claire Connelly,  Maxi Holland,  Dan Fischer, and P.J. Fishwick

In the ancient cobblestone streets, of Cuzco, Peru, 11-year-old Pablo sells postcards to tourists in the town square, and his brother, Jano, lives a life of petty crime to help their family survive. Pablo’s world turns upside down when he encounters Mary, who unbeknownst to him is the daughter of an American businessman planning to develop the land on which his family lives.

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