Producer
Jonathan Halperin
8 films
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.
Best known for
A Trip to Infinity
2022 · Director, Writer
On Netflix
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025 · Director
On Netflix
Code Rush
2000 · Screenplay
A Year in Space
2016 · Director, Writer
The Day the '60s Died
2015 · Writer, Director
On Kanopy
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
2005 · Producer, Writer
Filmography 8
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025 · Director
On Netflix
A Trip to Infinity
2022 · Director, Writer
On Netflix
A Year in Space
2016 · Director, Writer
The Day the '60s Died
2015 · Writer, Director
On Kanopy
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009 · Director
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009 · Producer
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
2005 · Producer, Writer
Code Rush
2000 · Screenplay