Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence is a filmmaker based in St. John’s, NL. Ruth’s feature films include Little Orphans (Best Canadian Feature, Whistler Film Festival 2020), Hopeless Romantic (2018), and the comedy feature, Party Pirate, sold-out its opening Gala overnight at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival in October 2023. Her documentaries A Lot of Love in the Room (2021) and Circus by Komatik (2019) have been featured on CBC Gem. She has directed, written, and/or produced on over 70 short films and webisodes. She’s writing two features, one with Sherry White and one with Emily Bridger. Ruth’s honours include the Joan Orenstein Best Actress Award, the RBC Michelle Jackson Award for Emerging Filmmaker, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Artist of the Year, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, the YWCA Woman of Distinction, a WIFT-AT WAVE Award, the national Leslie Yeo Award for Volunteerism, and the inaugural Ross Leslie Award for her contributions to film and theatre.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1607 |
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| Place of Birth | St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada |
| Also Known As |
2008
Behind the Wall
4.4/28
In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the...
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Behind the Wall
1994
Anchor Zone
4/4
A graduate of an elite training school is determined to discover the identity of her lost father. She begins a dangerous journey, meeting an array of...
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Anchor Zone
2002
Random Passage
0/0
This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-t...
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Random Passage
2009
Cut from the Same Cloth
0/0
In discovering the secret past of an old St. John's neighborhood, a family learns that love can lead down an uncharted road that is best followed with...
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Cut from the Same Cloth
2012
Cracker Barrel
0/0
Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.
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Cracker Barrel
2023
Everything Christmas
5.9/15
Christmas lover Lori Jo and her roommate head to Yuletide Springs for a longtime tradition to honor her late grandmother — and meet two men, Carl and...
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Everything Christmas
2018
An Audience of Chairs
5.8/9
Maura Mackenzie believes the world is hers to conquer. With her career as a concert pianist gaining momentum, it seems her beauty and talent will be s...
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An Audience of Chairs
2023
Blueberries for Iris
0/0
While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.
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Blueberries for Iris
2018
Incredible Violence
4.125/12
A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors...
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Incredible Violence
2015
Long Term Care
0/0
A father and son duo, Charlie and Sam Pike, come to grips with admitting war-vet Charlie, who suffers from dementia, into a long-term care home.
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Long Term Care
2019
Body & Bones
4/1
Diminished by grief, 18-year-old Tess (Kelly Van Der Burg) is moving through her life like a ghost. The one thing that comforts her is listening to th...
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Body & Bones
2010
Snarbuckled
0/0
An itinerant cook survives a shipwreck, paddles himself to an island in a stock pot, and finds himself on a surreal journey through his past to discov...
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Snarbuckled
2020
Under the Weather
0/0
There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and...
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Under the Weather
2017
Hunting Pignut
3/3
Bernice, a 15 year old misfit runs away from her rural Newfoundland community in search of Pignut, a tormented and violent gutter punk, after he steal...
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Hunting Pignut
2010
Four Sisters
0/0
An old flame dredges up family secrets. Will four sisters finally put their jealousies and misconceptions to rest?
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Four Sisters
2015
The Tour
0/0
Alice, a bus tour guide in St. John's Newfoundland with a broken heart unexpectedly tells her tales of love and loss to a group of life-weary tourists...
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The Tour
2014
Clipper Gold
0/0
It's a fine, frail line between fantasy and reality when the doleful, downtrodden state of a couple's relationship unfurls against the backdrop of a f...
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Clipper Gold
2009
Screamers: The Hunting
4.925/153
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction...
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Screamers: The Hunting
2013
Desperate Scribbles
0/0
A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.
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Desperate Scribbles
2009
Sweet Pickle
0/0
After 30 years of salt beef and baloney, the instinctively vegan Isabel hops a bay bus to the city supermarket. But a nosy stock boy, a cashier with h...
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Sweet Pickle
2012
Winners
0/0
Didi and Max are the most competitive best friends in the fourth grade. But their friendship hangs in the balance when Principal Jack announces a scho...
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Winners
2019
Opioid Scare
0/0
A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.
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Opioid Scare
1999
The Untold Story
0/0
The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999) is a docu-drama celebrating the thirty year struggle by the women of Newfoundland to win th...
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The Untold Story
2002
Fool Proof
0/0
Fool Proof takes us on an international roller coaster ride as we explore the history and art of clowning. With professional clown Beni Malone as ring...
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Fool Proof
2011
Surprise!
0/0
Surprise! is a dark comedy that satirizes the art world while taking a provocative look at the increasing problem of the misuse of sexual aid medicati...
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Surprise!
2010
Contracts
0/0
A hit man performs a morning job and an afternoon job then that evening he goes out on a blind date (on line date). Is this another hit or just a date...
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