FILMMAKERS JON SISKEL AND GREG JACOBS won the top prize at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival and an additional $5,000 cash prize for their feature doc, “Louder Than a Bomb.”
Their doc about four inspiring teams of a Chicago poetry slam won both the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film competition.
The Gund Memorial, which honors movies about social justice and activism, came with a $5,000 cash prize.
In emotionally accepting their award, the filmmakers admitted they had completed post only a week prior to its festival premiere.
The festival ran March 18-28 and featured more than 300 films from 84 countries, and was attended by a record-breaking 71,000 filmgoers.
Their company, SJP, is currently in production on a two-hour, archive-based special about Huurricane Katrina for the National Geographic Channel.
In 2006, SJP produced the Discovery Channel special, ” Head On,” which chronicled the obsessive subculture of “team demolition derby” in Joliet.
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