About
Jonathan Halperin
Overview
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.
Known for
Directing |
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2016 | A Year in Space | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2015 | The Day the '60s Died | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
Writing |
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2020 | The History of White People in America | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2016 | A Year in Space | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
2015 | The Day the '60s Died | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
2005 | National Geographic: Pyramids of Death | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
2000 | Code Rush | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
Production |
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2023 | Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine | Production | Executive Producer | 60 Fair |
2023 | Unknown: Cave of Bones | Production | Executive Producer | 60 Fair |
2023 | Unknown: Killer Robots | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2023 | Unknown: The Lost Pyramid | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2020 | The History of White People in America | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2012 | Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2009 | Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2005 | National Geographic: Pyramids of Death | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1997 | Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature | Production | Associate Producer | N/A N/A |