- Known For
- Directing
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- Place of Birth
- St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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 Volunteeri…
Filmography
movieBlueberry Grunt
2025 · Producer
movieEverything Christmas
2023 · Pastor Olivia
movieParty Pirate
2023 · Director
movieBlueberries for Iris
2023 · Grace, Production Manager, Producer
Not Fit
movieNot Fit
2023 · Thanks
movieSeptember 7, 2012
2022 · Executive Producer
tvSurrealEstate
2021 · Genevieve Wilson
movieUnder the Weather
2020 · Jenny
movieLittle Orphans
2020 · Director
movieBody & Bones
2019 · Lisa Sharpe
Common Law
movieCommon Law
2019 · Producer
Opioid Scare
movieOpioid Scare
2019 · Connie
tvHudson & Rex
2019 · Kit Rendall
The Cut of It
movieThe Cut of It
2019 · Director
movieSome Saturdays
2018 · First Assistant Director, Producer
movieHopeless Romantic
2018 · Director, Writer
movieAn Audience of Chairs
2018 · Florist
movieTe Quiero
2018 · Producer
movieIncredible Violence
2018 · Publicist
movieHunting Pignut
2017 · Police Woman, Co-Producer, Second Assistant Director, Publicist
movieSnowstorm Roulette
2017 · Producer
movieWaiting Outside
2017 · Co-Producer
movieThe Perfect Family
2016 · Co-Producer
movieCrocuses
2016 · Associate Producer
The Tour
movieThe Tour
2015 · Married Woman, Producer
movieLong Term Care
2015 · Helen
movieClipper Gold
2014 · Female
movieThe Grand Seduction
2014 · Dresser
movieBetween Two Walls
2014 · Script Supervisor
Before the War
movieBefore the War
2014 · Producer
movieWind Money
2013 · Associate Producer
Me2
movieMe2
2013 · Third Assistant Director
Talus and Scree
movieTalus and Scree
2013 · Director, Writer
Desperate Scribbles
movieDesperate Scribbles
2013 · Schreiber
movieLittle Man
2013 · First Assistant Director
Two Square Feet
movieTwo Square Feet
2012 · Director, Writer
Cracker Barrel
movieCracker Barrel
2012 · Agnes
movieWinners
2012
Surprise!
movieSurprise!
2011 · Greta
movieSnarbuckled
2010 · Rawny Nipper
movieFour Sisters
2010 · Clara
Contracts
movieContracts
2010 · Carrie
movieScreamers: The Hunting
2009 · Cave Woman
Cut from the Same Cloth
movieCut from the Same Cloth
2009
movieSweet Pickle
2009 · Isabel, Writer
movieBehind the Wall
2008 · Elaine
Fool Proof
movieFool Proof
2002 · Mother on Stilts
movieRandom Passage
2002 · Hazel Andrews
movieThe Untold Story
1999 · Fannie McNeil
movieThe Divine Ryans
1999 · Wardrobe Assistant
movieWhen Ponds Freeze Over
1998 · Wardrobe Designer
movieAnchor Zone
1994 · Counsellor