Ruth Lawrence
- Directing
- St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Biography
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
Filmography
- The Night Everything Changed · Second Assistant Director
- Margot · Producer
- Heritage Minutes: Gander and 9/11 · Librarian
- Blueberry Grunt · Producer
- Everything Christmas · Pastor Olivia
- Party Pirate · Director
- Blueberries for Iris · Grace, Production Manager
- Not Fit · Thanks
- September 7, 2012 · Executive producer
- SurrealEstate · Genevieve Wilson
- Under the Weather · Jenny
- Little Orphans · Director
- Body & Bones · Lisa Sharpe
- Common Law · Producer
- Opioid Scare · Connie
- Hudson & Rex · Kit Rendall
- The Cut of It · Director
- Some Saturdays · First Assistant Director, Producer
- Hopeless Romantic · Director, Writer
- An Audience of Chairs · Florist
- Te Quiero · Producer
- Incredible Violence · Publicist
- Hunting Pignut · Police Woman, Co-producer
- Snowstorm Roulette · Producer
- Waiting Outside · Co-producer
- The Perfect Family · Co-producer
- Crocuses · Associate Producer
- The Tour · Married Woman, Producer
- Long Term Care · Helen
- Clipper Gold · Female
- The Grand Seduction · Dresser
- Between Two Walls · Script Supervisor
- Before the War · Producer
- Wind Money · Associate Producer
- Me2 · Third Assistant Director
- Talus and Scree · Director, Writer
- Desperate Scribbles · Schreiber
- Little Man · First Assistant Director
- Two Square Feet · Director, Writer
- Cracker Barrel · Agnes
- Winners
- Surprise! · Greta
- Snarbuckled · Rawny Nipper
- Four Sisters · Clara
- Contracts · Carrie
- Screamers: The Hunting · Cave Woman
- Cut from the Same Cloth
- Sweet Pickle · Isabel, Writer
- Behind the Wall · Elaine
- Fool Proof · Mother on Stilts
- Random Passage · Hazel Andrews
- The Untold Story · Fannie McNeil
- The Divine Ryans · Wardrobe Assistant
- When Ponds Freeze Over · Wardrobe Designer
- Anchor Zone · Counsellor
- Heritage Minutes · La bibliothécaire
- The Road Between Us · Supervising Producer