Sharon Roggio Filmmaker

Sharon “Rocky” Roggio is making her directorial debut with 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture and proudly joins the ranks of women filmmakers and documentarians. Roggio has been honing her expertise in film and television producing for two decades and has worked on award-winning films and series, including House of Cards, Parks and Recreation, W/ Bob and David, Whip It, Red Dawn and Flipped, with A-List stars such as Robin Wright, David Fincher, Drew Barrymore, Chris Hemsworth, Rob Reiner, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Poehler, Tyler Perry, Bob Odenkirk, Sigourney Weaver, and Jimmy Fallon. She also had the privilege to work and meet crews across the country, having done several national commercial campaigns. She is a previous member of 3 IATSE film unions, Local 487 D.C./Baltimore/Virginia, Local 38 Detroit, and Local 161 New York. While attending film school at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, Roggio secured an internship with Banyan Productions, one of the nation’s leading producers of non-scripted reality television for networks like TLC, FOX, Travel Network, Discovery Network, The Food Network, Discovery Kids, Discovery Health, Lifetime, Nick @ Nite, PBS, Style, and HGTV.Com. Her internship quickly became associate producing responsibilities for A Wedding Story on TLC and later led to contract work for Ambush Makeover on FOX. Producing came naturally to Roggio, and coupled with her studies, her employment at Banyan proved invaluable. She was instantly hooked on the craft.