Rose Troche

Rose Troche is an American lesbian filmmaker known for co-directing (with Guinevere Turner) Go Fish (1994) -- a landmark of New Queer Cinema that depicted a community of young lesbians in Chicago with warmth, humor, and a guerrilla aesthetic, made for roughly $15,000 and premiering at Sundance -- and for Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), starring Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, and Hugo Weaving, which won the Audience Award at the London Film Festival. Her third feature, The Safety of Objects (2001), adapted from A. M. Homes's story collection and starring Glenn Close and Kristen Stewart, opened the San Sebastian Film Festival and won two awards at Deauville. She directed multiple episodes of The L Word (2004) and Six Feet Under (2001). Go Fish became one of the signature films of 1990s queer independent cinema and is regularly cited as the film that proved a market existed for lesbian-centered storytelling.