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
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Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
Unknown: Cave of Bones
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
Unknown: Killer Robots
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
The History of White People in America
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2020
The History of White People in America
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2020
A Year in Space
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2016
A Year in Space
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2016
The Day the '60s Died
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2015
The Day the '60s Died
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2015
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2012
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2009
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2009
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2005
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2005
Code Rush
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2000
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Role: Associate Producer
MOVIE • 1997
Explorer
Role: Writer
TV • 1985
Explorer
Role: Executive Producer
TV • 1985