Merryl Roche — director portrait

Merryl Roche

Merryl Roche was born in Annecy in 1987. She left the Alps for New York where she studied acting at the Atlantic Acting School, before moving to Paris where she studied film. Driven by the desire to tell her stories, she directed in 2014 her first self-produced horror short film entitled Rash. In 2019, she directed her second genre short film Nouvelle Saveur aka Haute Cuisine starring Joséphine Japy. The film was selected in about sixty festivals internationally and won numerous awards. She is currently adapting this story into a feature film.