JH

Jonathan Halperin

Producer, Writer, Director, Additional Credits
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

  • Lore
  • A Trip to Infinity
  • Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
  • Unknown: Cave of Bones
  • Headspace Guide to Meditation
  • A Year in Space
  • Unknown: Killer Robots
  • A Year in Space
  • Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things the First Shadow
  • Washington
  • Headspace Guide to Sleep
  • The Day the '60s Died
  • Untamed Americas
  • Explorer

Filmography

2024
2023
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine · as Executive Producer
2023
Unknown: Cave of Bones · as Executive Producer
2023
Unknown: Killer Robots · as Executive Producer
2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid · as Executive Producer
2022
2018
Trials of the Wild (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2017
Lore (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2017
Navy SEALs: America's Secret Warriors (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2016
2015
The Day the '60s Died · as Executive Producer
2012
Untamed Americas (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2012
Sex in the Stone Age · as Executive Producer
2012
2010
Great Migrations (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2010
Border Wars (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2008
National Geographic: Nature Untamed (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2005
Is It Real? (TV Series)
2005
1997
1997
Cadillac Desert (TV Series) · as Associate Producer
1988
P.O.V. (TV Series) · as Consulting Producer
1985
Explorer (TV Series) · as Executive Producer

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