Jonathan Halperin
Jon is an Emmy Award-winning director, writer and producer. He has produced, directed written and overseen documentaries for Amazon, PBS, National Geographic, Time, Inc., ITVS, TED, TechTV, Discovery, and for digital and theatrical distribution. In 2012, Halperin founded Room 608, with Mark Mannucci, a new media and documentary production company based in New York. Halperin and Mannucci most recently executive producers of the Amazon series Lore, a hybrid fiction/documentary series for Propagate Content and Valhalla Entertainment as well as the HHMI series I Contain Multitudes for PBS Digital. He won an Emmy for Best Science and Technology film in 2017 for A Year in Space and for Best Investigative Documentary in 2009 for Gorilla Murders.
Crew
TV
Lore
Executive Producer
2017
Movie
A Trip to Infinity
Director
2022
Movie
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Executive Producer
2023
Movie
Unknown: Killer Robots
Executive Producer
2023
Movie
Unknown: Cave of Bones
Executive Producer
2023
Movie
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Executive Producer
2023
Movie
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Director
2025
Movie
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Executive Producer
2012
TV
Washington
Writer
2020
TV
Explorer
Writer
1985
Movie
Code Rush
Screenplay
2000
Movie
A Year in Space
Director
2016