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
National Geographic Explorer
2009
Lore
2017
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
2005
Cadillac Desert
1997
Washington
2020
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025
A Trip to Infinity
2022
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
2023
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
2023
Unknown: Cave of Bones
2023
A Year in Space
2016
Unknown: Killer Robots
2023
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Movies
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Directing
5
Writing
8
Producing
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