Director: Jonathan Halperin

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.