Perri Peltz

Perri Peltz is an Emmy®-award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and public health advocate. Most recently, Peltz directed The Last Twins on PBS, She Runs The World (Mountainfilm 2026), a 2025 Tribeca Festival official selection, Columbia duPont Award-winning Can’t Look Away for Bloomberg Originals and Surveilled with Ronan Farrow for HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Peltz and O’Neill also created the Emmy®-winning documentary news series “Axios on HBO,” and directed and produced the 2019 HBO documentary, “Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America.” Previously, Peltz directed the HBO documentaries, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, about the opioid addiction epidemic and Risky Drinking, about alcohol use disorder. She co-directed “A Conversation About Growing Up Black” as part of the “Conversation on Race” series for The New York Times Op-Docs. Other films include HBO’s Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Prison Dogs. Peltz hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” on SiriusXM Radio and has a doctorate in public health from Columbia University. She was previously an award-winning broadcast journalist for NBC, ABC and CNN.