Sam Rocco is a director and writer based in Los Angeles, CA. He spent his childhood in New Jersey watching Spielberg movies and falling off his bicycle. Influenced by movies like Jurassic Park, Ace Ventura, and Nightmare on Elm Street, Rocco has cultivated a unique style that stands out in a depressed-child-of-the-90s type of way. He has a totally normal obsession with 90s anime and Warhammer, and is determined to one day make a buddy-cop film that may or may not involve dinosaurs.

This guy spent five years in the United States Navy as an air traffic controller, writing weird vampire stories at night in the control tower while making sure no planes blew up. He has a BFA in screenwriting from Arizona State University and an MFA in Film Production from USC. Rocco’s short films have screened on laptops and cellphones all over the world, he’s written a bunch of feature screenplays that no one has read, directed some music videos, spent time as the in-house filmmaker for Yamaha Music, and is a directing professor at USC.

Rocco is currently in post-production on his first feature film, Stegosaurus – a horror film about a dinosaur obsessed serial killer. When not writing or directing a future cult classic, Rocco spends most of his time teaching his dog to give high fives and writing third-person bios about himself.