Jesse Peretz

Jesse W. Peretz (born May 19, 1968) is an American musician, photographer and film director. He first rose to prominence as a bass guitarist and founding member of The Lemonheads, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based band which formed in 1986. Peretz left the band as a musician shortly before their breakout album, It's a Shame About Ray was released, but stayed on as the band photographer. After leaving The Lemonheads, he began to work extensively as a director, first in short form works such as television commercials and music videos, later transitioning to feature films and television series. His most recent work has been the film Our Idiot Brother and the TV series Girls. He has been named to direct a feature film adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel Juliet, Naked. 2Career Peretz 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. He left the band as a musician prior to the band's breakthrough album It's a Shame About Ray, however he continued to work with them as a photographer and music video director. His first videos for The Lemonheads were for the songs "Mrs. Robinson", "Confetti" and "It's a Shame about Ray