The origin of their families can be found in France (Roche and Dugand), Italy (Gnecco by the mother) and Ireland.
During his second year at the IDHEC, Roche made the short film Let's To See Said a Blind Man To His Deaf Wife (1965).
At that time, the renowned Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf gave him the opportunity to be Director of the Audiovisual Department, Film, Theatre and Television at the National Institute of Culture (INCIBA).
During those years, Roche was one of the founding members of the National Cinematheque: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela.
En el camino del color), this work was followed by Ignacio "Indio" Figueredo (1972), a short film about the great Venezuelan harpist; the same year made Mérida is Not A Town (1972), (Mérida no es un pueblo), an experimental short film.
Also he wrote and directed the medium-length Like Islands in Time (1975) (Como islas en el tiempo), about the Charles Brewer-Carias expedition to the tepuis Sarisariñama and Jaua, located in Amazonas (Venezuela).
In 1994, The Moving Picture Man was featured in the exhibition "Venezuela: Forty Years of Cinema, 1950–1990" at the Museum of Modern Art with two other fellow Venezuelan filmographers.
Out In The Open was based on the scientific trip to equatorial lands of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland and was awarded in different Cinema festivals.
In 2011, he wrote and directed Suddenly, A Film (2011) (De repente, La película), a satirical and improvised comedy with Daniela Bascope and Carlos Antonio León as two lovers who try to shoot a movie in the Venezuelan jungle with disastrous results.