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.
Also known as
Jon Halperin
Born
Birthplace not listed.
Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
0
Acting credits
5
Directing
8
Writing
15
Other crew
Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
- 1
414 votesLore
2017 · tv
- 2
135 votesA Trip to Infinity
2022 · movie
- 3
78 votesUnknown: Cosmic Time Machine
2023 · movie
- 4
61 votesUnknown: Killer Robots
2023 · movie
- 5
58 votesUnknown: Cave of Bones
2023 · movie
- 6
51 votesUnknown: The Lost Pyramid
2023 · movie
- 7
32 votesBehind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025 · movie
- 8
29 votesTitanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
2012 · movie
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
