Quenton Allan Brocka (born 1972)[1] is an American television and film director based in West Hollywood, California.
At age nine, his mother, a saleswoman for Panasonic, brought home a video camera and Brocka began creating short films and sketch comedy.
He found an early fascination with science fiction, but after seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show and some John Waters films as a teen, he realized sexuality was a legitimate subject.
[citation needed] Brocka went on to create another short, Roberta Loved, a story of a morbidly obese woman who is fired from her job and learns she will die.
[citation needed] For the first film, Eating Out, Brocka reached out to American Idol contestant Jim Verraros, who had never previously acted, as a co-star.