Roc Morin
Directing
Biography
Roc Morin is a filmmaker based in Las Vegas. Roc directed Meduza and You Are My Audience, and produced Family Romance LLC, directed by Werner Herzog, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and had its North American premiere at Telluride. Roc was formerly an EMT in New York, a psychology professor at City College of New York, and a war correspondent in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.
Known For
Meduza follows Ukrainian artist-turned-sniper Pavlo Aldoshyn from the first days of the war in 2022. Throughout the film, Pavlo's inner life connects to a range of stories around the globe, including a Japanese widower searching the ocean for his wife, and an Amazonian tribesman describing the loss of a mythical ladder uniting earth and sky.
Meduza
Features stories from around the globe that explore identity and relate to one another in unexpected and meaningful ways. This documentary traverses the inner worlds of diverse characters as they face their own parallel identities.
You Are My Audience
A philosophical and theological exploration behind the world's first robot deity unveiled at a Buddhist monastery in Japan.