David Rocchio

David Rocchio is an attorney, writer and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. As a practicing attorney David worked both as a litigator and served as Legal Counsel to Vermont's Governor Howard Dean, M.D. As an emerging filmmaker, David's award-winning short films have played internationally (including Cannes Short Film Corner; Italy's Capalbio International Short Film Festival 'Best of Capalbio'; and 2015 Los Angeles Independent Film Awards, finalist best screenplay. David conceived and co-produced The Gun Shop, an Emmy-nominated single-episode documentary made initially for the UK's Channel 4's Cutting Edge strand and then playing worldwide. In 2013 David founded and now runs Stowe Story Labs, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit dedicated to helping top emerging screenwriters and filmmakers get work made and seen. David is a nationally certified EMT, a veteran ski patrolman and in addition to screenwriting and filmmaking, writes short fiction and for twenty years has written a column for central Vermont newspapers. He lives with his family (and dog) in Stowe, Vermont.