Perri Peltz

Perri Peltz is an Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri directed Surveilled for HBO and created the Emmy® winning documentary news series AXIOS on HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Perri and Matthew also directed and produced the 2019 HBO Documentary, Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Previously, Perri 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, and other films include HBO’s Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Prison Dogs. Perri hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” with Matthew O’Neill 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.