In 1990 Rosemary House formed Rock Island Productions and made the award-winning short When Women are Crazy. Since then she's made over 25 films, including the feature film comedy Violet (2001) starring Mary Walsh, and the National Film Board docs Rain, Drizzle and Fog (1998) Salvation (2003) and Hospital City (2004) with producer Kent Martin.
She wrote and produced the feature film Hold Fast (2013) for Rock Island and made the digital series Hungry Month of March (2017) with NFB producer Annette Clarke.
House’s adaptation of Joan Clark’s novel, An Audience of Chairs, directed by Deanne Foley (Relative Happiness) won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Atlantic Film Festival, among several honours for the film and its director.
Other nominated and award-winning Rock Island productions include the arts docs Bloomsday Cabaret (2004), about writer James Joyce, Ron Hynes: The Irish Tour (2003) about the legendary NL singer songwriter and Christopher House: Ahead of the Curve (2007), about the celebrated director of Toronto Dance Theatre (and House's brother).
House adapted Kevin Major’s seminal NL novel Hold Fast and Justin Simms (Down to the Dirt) directed. Hold Fast won the Audience Award at the Seoul International Youth Film Festival in 2014.
In 2015 House co-wrote and produced Puffin Patrol for CBC's Nature of Things. The NFB launched the award-winning digital production of Hungry Month of March in 2017.
House is currently working on a gallery installation, entitled Archipelago.
