Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Credits
52 titles
Ruth Lawrence
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
Blueberry Grunt
Producer
Everything Christmas
Pastor Olivia
Party Pirate
Director
Blueberries for Iris
Grace
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
Hopeless Romantic
Director
An Audience of Chairs
Florist
Te Quiero
Producer
Incredible Violence
Publicist
Hunting Pignut
Police Woman
Snowstorm Roulette
Producer
Waiting Outside
Co-Producer
The Perfect Family
Co-Producer
Crocuses
Associate Producer
The Tour
Married Woman
Long Term Care
Helen
Clipper Gold
Female
The Grand Seduction
Dresser
Before the War
Producer
Between Two Walls
Script Supervisor
Wind Money
Associate Producer
Me2
Third Assistant Director
Talus and Scree
Director
Desperate Scribbles
Schreiber
Little Man
First Assistant Director
Two Square Feet
Director
Winners
Cracker Barrel
Agnes
Surprise!
Greta
Snarbuckled
Rawny Nipper
Contracts
Carrie
Four Sisters
Clara
Screamers: The Hunting
Cave Woman
Cut from the Same Cloth
Sweet Pickle
Isabel
Behind the Wall
Elaine
Fool Proof
Mother on Stilts
Random Passage
Hazel Andrews
The Divine Ryans
Wardrobe Assistant
The Untold Story
Fannie McNeil