Rose Troche was born in 1964, in the midwest into a Puerto Rican family. She started out by making short films and videos.
Films
Her directorial debut was the groundbreaking film Go Fish, a lesbian love story. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. The film was co-written and co-produced with Guinevere Turner, who was Troche's girlfriend at the time. Her next feature film was Bedrooms and Hallways which explored male sexuality. She also directed The Safety of Objects, which was adapted from the short stories of A.M. Holmes and focused on heterosexual love in suburbia. Go Fish, also called Fish, is a simple card game popular among children. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks amongst the top five events of its type in the world. ... Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an American actress and writer. ...
Television
Her television work is just as extensive as her film work. She has directed numerous episodes of the HBO hit drama Six Feet Under. And since 2004 she has been a director and writer for the Showtime series The L Word, the groundbreaking show about a lesbian friends living in LA. HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ... Six Feet Under was a critically acclaimed and popular television drama produced by HBO. It first aired on June 3, 2001 and concluded its fifth and final season run in the USA on August 21, 2005. ... This article needs to be updated. ... The L Word is a television drama series airing on Showtime in the United States and Showcase Television in Canada. ...
RoseTroche blasted onto the scene in 1994 as the co-writer and director of "Go Fish." The world reacted with genuine surprise to the mere existence of a hip, young lesbian director.
Troche recently met with indieWIRE to talk about this surprising choice for her second feature, audience reactions to the film, what she's been doing all this time, and her arm-wrestling aspirations.
Troche: That came from a very sincere place, for both Robert Farrar, (screenwriter) and I. It wasn't positioned so that Leo is left with the girl so that we make a zillion dollars on the movie cause it crosses over.
RoseTroche is best known as the writer/director of the groundbreaking lesbian love story "Go Fish," which premiered at Sundance in 1994.
Since then, Troche has made another, little-seen feature, "Bedrooms and Hallways," about male sexuality; she has an original script in development, "Lucinda's Changed," which she says is about "woman as monsteress;" and in April she begins shooting the first-ever lesbian TV series (tentatively called "The L Word") for Showtime.
Troche: To me the title is about the things we put between ourselves and people, how we surround ourselves with things instead of looking for human contact to comfort us, how things fill in for words, for physical contact.
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