Rosemary House formed Rock Island in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, in 1996 after her award winning short film, When Women are Crazy, screened at Toronto. Highlights since include feature film Violet (2001) produced by Mary Sexton and the National Film Board docs Rain, Drizzle and Fog (1998), Hospital City 2002 and Salvation in 2004. Art docs Bloomsday Cabaret, Ron Hynes: The Irish Tour and Ahead of the Curve (2002-07) all received Gemini nods, screened on Bravo, CTV and internationally.  

Rock Island produced Rosemary's feature adaptation of Kevin Major’s Hold Fast in 2013. Justin Simms (Down to the Dirt) directed. Hold Fast won the Audience Award at the Seoul Intl Youth Festival in 2014.  Exciting! 

In 2015 House and Charlotte Engel wrote and produced Puffin Patrol for CBC's Nature of Things. The NFB launched Rock Island's award-winning digital production of Hungry Month of March, produced by Annette Clarke, in 2017.  

House’s adaptation of Joan Clark’s novel, An Audience of Chairs, directed by Deanne Foley won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Atlantic Festival.  Archipelago, produced in 2022, is almost there but also in a lull.  But it's art so it must wait.