Alaric S. Rocha has been making films since 1999 where he first learned the craft from Club Panico in London an organization run by some of the crew members of Monty Python. His work has been screened at many film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival, the Illinois International Film Festival, the San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, the Seattle True Independent Film Festival, as well as Internationally at Sitges, Spain, Sao Paulo, Brazil and more. Alaric earned his MFA in digital cinema from DePaul University in 2014 and a BM from Lawrence University in 2002. His musical background has a huge influence on his style of filmmaking and subject matter.

Alaric is a currently instructor at the Los Angeles Film School in Los Angeles, CA where he lives and works. He has also taught at DePaul University in Chicago, Tecnológico de Monterrey in Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico and the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before teaching at the University level Alaric taught filmmaking to children at various organizations around Chicago and the mid-west. Alaric’s area of research and expertise are writing/directing, Mexican cinema, film through psychology, and teaching film to children.

Other areas of interest include, culinary arts, camping, Argentine tango, Lindy-hop, and viola performance.