His directorial work includes the films Our Idiot Brother and Juliet, Naked, and the TV series Girls.
Peretz is a founding member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based rock band The Lemonheads, which he formed in high school with classmates Evan Dando and Ben Deily.
[3] He went on to direct videos for the Foo Fighters (he won a Grammy for Best Music Video for "Learn to Fly"),[4] Jack Black, Nada Surf and The Breeders,[3] as well as creating and co-directing the "Jimmy the Cab-Driver" comedy vignettes for MTV with his friends from Harvard Donal Logue and Clay Tarver.
[5] Peretz also directed several commercials including spots for Nike, IKEA, Barq's Root Beer, and the Sony PlayStation.
[6] In 1998, he directed a feature film called First Love, Last Rites based on the Ian McEwan short story of the same name.