Ruth Lawrence

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.

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  • Place of Birth : St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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Ruth Lawrence Movies

  • 2008
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    Behind the Wall

    Behind the Wall

    4.8 2008 HD

    In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in...

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  • 1994
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    Anchor Zone

    Anchor Zone

    4 1994 HD

    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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  • 2002
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    Random Passage

    Random Passage

    1 2002 HD

    This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of...

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  • 2009
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    Cut from the Same Cloth

    Cut from the Same Cloth

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Cracker Barrel

    Cracker Barrel

    1 2012 HD

    Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.

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  • 2023
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    Everything Christmas

    Everything Christmas

    6.6 2023 HD

    Christmas lover Lori Jo and her roommate head to Yuletide Springs for a longtime tradition to honor her late grandmother — and meet two men,...

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  • 2023
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    Blueberries for Iris

    Blueberries for Iris

    1 2023 HD

    While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.

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  • 2018
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    An Audience of Chairs

    An Audience of Chairs

    5.8 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Incredible Violence

    Incredible Violence

    4.3 2018 HD

    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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  • 2015
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    Long Term Care

    Long Term Care

    1 2015 HD

    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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  • 2019
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    Body & Bones

    Body & Bones

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Snarbuckled

    Snarbuckled

    1 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    Under the Weather

    Under the Weather

    1 2020 HD

    There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling...

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  • 2017
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    Hunting Pignut

    Hunting Pignut

    2 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Four Sisters

    Four Sisters

    1 2010 HD

    An old flame dredges up family secrets. Will four sisters finally put their jealousies and misconceptions to rest?

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  • 2015
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    The Tour

    The Tour

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Clipper Gold

    Clipper Gold

    1 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Screamers: The Hunting

    Screamers: The Hunting

    5 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Desperate Scribbles

    Desperate Scribbles

    1 2013 HD

    A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.

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  • 2009
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    Sweet Pickle

    Sweet Pickle

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Winners

    Winners

    1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2019
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    Opioid Scare

    Opioid Scare

    1 2019 HD

    A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.

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  • 1999
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    Untold Story

    Untold Story

    1 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Party Pirate

    Party Pirate

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2014
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    Between Two Walls

    Between Two Walls

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1998
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    When Ponds Freeze Over

    When Ponds Freeze Over

    1 1998 HD

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  • 2013
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    Little Man

    Little Man

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2018
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    Te Quiero

    Te Quiero

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2017
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    Waiting Outside

    Waiting Outside

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2023
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    Blueberries for Iris

    Blueberries for Iris

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2023
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    Blueberries for Iris

    Blueberries for Iris

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2018
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    Some Saturdays

    Some Saturdays

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2018
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    Some Saturdays

    Some Saturdays

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2017
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    Snowstorm Roulette

    Snowstorm Roulette

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2017
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    Hunting Pignut

    Hunting Pignut

    2 2017 HD

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  • 2023
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    Not Fit

    Not Fit

    8 2023 HD

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  • 2018
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    Hopeless Romantic

    Hopeless Romantic

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2020
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    Little Orphans

    Little Orphans

    3 2020 HD

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  • 2017
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    Hunting Pignut

    Hunting Pignut

    2 2017 HD

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  • 2017
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    Hunting Pignut

    Hunting Pignut

    2 2017 HD

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  • 2015
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    The Tour

    The Tour

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2009
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    Sweet Pickle

    Sweet Pickle

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2013
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    Talus and Scree

    Talus and Scree

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2013
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    Talus and Scree

    Talus and Scree

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2012
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    Two Square Feet

    Two Square Feet

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Two Square Feet

    Two Square Feet

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2013
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    Me2

    Me2

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Perfect Family

    The Perfect Family

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2018
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    Hopeless Romantic

    Hopeless Romantic

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2019
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    Hudson & Rex

    Hudson & Rex

    8.358 2019 HD

    Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team...

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  • 2021
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    SurrealEstate

    SurrealEstate

    6.5 2021 HD

    Aided by his own remarkable abilities and an eclectic team of associates, real estate agent Luke Roman specializes in “metaphysically engaged...

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