Director

Jonathan Halperin

Writing

Career Snapshot

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.3

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 19

TMDB ID: 76357

IMDb ID: nm1953967

Known for: Writing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1985 - 2025

Years active: 41

Average TMDB rating: 7.31

Also known as

Jon Halperin

Frequent jobs

Director (4)Executive Producer (8)Producer (2)Writer (2)Associate Producer (1)Production Assistant (1)Screenplay (1)

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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.

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