Jonathan Halperin
Known For: Writing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow ... (Director)
2023
- Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine ... (Executive Producer)
- Unknown: The Lost Pyramid ... (Executive Producer)
- Unknown: Cave of Bones ... (Executive Producer)
- Unknown: Killer Robots ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- A Trip to Infinity ... (Director)
2020
- Washington ... (Writer)
- The History of White People in America ... (Producer)
2017
- Lore ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- A Year in Space ... (Director)
2015
- The Day the '60s Died ... (Director)
2012
- Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron ... (Executive Producer)
2011
- How to Build a Beating Heart ... (Executive Producer)
2009
- Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ... (Producer)
- Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil ... (Executive Producer)
- 24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact ... (Director)
2005
- National Geographic: Pyramids of Death ... (Producer)
2000
- Code Rush ... (Screenplay)
1999
- Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle ... (Production Assistant)
1985
- Explorer ... (Executive Producer)