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.
Fotos
Filme (54)
The Road Back to Us
2026 · Supervising Producer
The Night Everything Changed
2026 · Second Assistant Director
Margot
2026 · Producer
Heritage Minutes: Gander and 9/11
2026 · Librarian, Production Manager
Blueberry Grunt
2025 · Producer
Everything Christmas
2023 · Pastor Olivia
Party Pirate
2023 · Director
Blueberries for Iris
2023 · Grace, Production Manager, Producer
Not Fit
2023 · Thanks
September 7, 2012
2022 · Executive Producer
Under the Weather
2020 · Jenny
Little Orphans
2020 · Director
Body & Bones
2019 · Lisa Sharpe
Common Law
2019 · Producer
Opioid Scare
2019 · Connie
The Cut of It
2019 · Director
Some Saturdays
2018 · Producer, First Assistant Director
Hopeless Romantic
2018 · Director, Writer
An Audience of Chairs
2018 · Florist
Te Quiero
2018 · Producer
Incredible Violence
2018 · Publicist
Hunting Pignut
2017 · Police Woman, Co-Producer, Second Assistant Director, Publicist
Snowstorm Roulette
2017 · Producer
Waiting Outside
2017 · Co-Producer
The Perfect Family
2016 · Co-Producer
Crocuses
2016 · Associate Producer
The Tour
2015 · Married Woman, Producer
Long Term Care
2015 · Helen
Clipper Gold
2014 · Female
Die große Versuchung - Lügen, bis der Arzt kommt
2014 · Dresser
Between Two Walls
2014 · Script Supervisor
Before the War
2014 · Producer
Wind Money
2013 · Associate Producer
Me2
2013 · Third Assistant Director
Talus and Scree
2013 · Director, Writer
Desperate Scribbles
2013 · Schreiber
Little Man
2013 · First Assistant Director
Two Square Feet
2012 · Director, Writer
Cracker Barrel
2012 · Agnes
Winners
2012
Surprise!
2011 · Greta
Snarbuckled
2010 · Rawny Nipper
Four Sisters
2010 · Clara
Contracts
2010 · Carrie
Asesinos cibernéticos 2
2009 · Cave Woman
Cut from the Same Cloth
2009
Sweet Pickle
2009 · Isabel, Writer
Behind The Wall - Der Geisterturm
2008 · Elaine
Fool Proof
2002 · Mother on Stilts
Random Passage
2002 · Hazel Andrews
The Untold Story
1999 · Fannie McNeil
The Divine Ryans
1999 · Wardrobe Assistant
When Ponds Freeze Over
1998 · Wardrobe Designer
Anchor Zone
1994 · Counsellor
