These three films were made over the course of ten years. After completing "The Safety of Objects", Troche realized that she had only directed so much content and wanted to work on her craft of directing. She wanted to work on projects that were immediate work not something that was going to take three years to make. Her directorial debut was the groundbreaking film "Go Fish" (1994), a lesbian love story. Made on a shoestring budget, it was one of the truly "independent" films of the mid 90s, and certainly one of the first in the lesbian genre. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. The film was co-written and co-produced with Guinevere Turner, who was Troche's girlfriend at the time. Her next feature film was "Bedrooms and Hallways" (1998) which explored sexuality. She also directed "The Safety of Objects" (2001), which was adapted from the short stories of A. M. Homes and focused on heterosexual love in suburbia. She was also a producer for both "Go Fish" and "The Safety of Objects", as well as for Stacie Passon's 2013 film "Concussion". Rose Troche, a Latina director teamed up with her then partner and co-writer to finance on their own an experimental lesbian feature. It was the first film to be sold to a distributor during the Sundance Film Festival. With the small amount of approximately $8000, started their road to a Samuel Goldwyn $450,000 sale. Help along the way with Vachon's company Killer Films who contributed $5000 when funds ran out and John Pierson bankrolled the remaining $53,000. "Troche's Latina identity was (problematically) written out of the marketing campaign and the film was promoted on the basis of her gender and sexuality." The film was released during gay pride month in June 1994 and eventually grossed $2.4 million. "Go Fish" proved the marketability of lesbian issues for the film industry. Troche mentioned that during the filming of Go Fish (1994), at one point she didn't have money to pay her phone and electric bills. The film also put a label on her and critics considered her "a professional queer", a fact that she sometimes hated: ""Go Fish" made me such a card-carrying member. It is, like, boring. I go into interviews for "Bedrooms and Hallways" and all anyone can talk about is being gay, gay, gay."