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Jonathan Halperin
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, TE…
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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.
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2025
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Movie Director
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2023
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Unknown: Cave of Bones
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Unknown: Killer Robots
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
A Trip to Infinity
Movie Director
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2020
The History of White People in America
Movie Producer
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2020
Washington
TV show Writer
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2017
Lore
TV show Executive Producer
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2016
A Year in Space
Movie Director
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2015
The Day the '60s Died
Movie Director
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2012
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Movie Executive Producer
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2011
How to Build a Beating Heart
Movie Executive Producer
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2009
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Movie Executive Producer
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2009
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
Movie Director
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2009
Easter Island Underworld
Movie Executive Producer
More credits
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2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Movie Producer
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2005
National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
Movie Producer
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2000
Code Rush
Movie Screenplay
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1999
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
Movie Production Assistant
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1997
Cadillac Desert
TV show Associate Producer
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1985
National Geographic Explorer
TV show Writer
