Ruth Lawrence
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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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Behind the Wall
Overview: In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long held the blame. When developers descend on the abandoned lighthouse and begin to vanish mysteriously, Katelyn comes face-to-face with the evil haunts the family's former abode.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-30
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Anchor Zone
Overview: 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 characters as she discovers her past. Stars Henry Czerny, Michael Luke.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-24
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Random Passage
Overview: This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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Cut from the Same Cloth
Overview: 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 with the heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Cracker Barrel
Overview: Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Everything Christmas
Overview: Christmas lover Lori Jo and her roommate head to Yuletide Springs for a longtime tradition to honor her late grandmother — and meet two men, Carl and Jason, along the way.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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An Audience of Chairs
Overview: 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 strong enough to mask the demons that threaten to engulf her. But with an absent husband and two young daughters at home, her precarious sanity begins to unravel until one summer day, burning with manic energy, she makes a terrible mistake — a mistake that will change her life forever. The consequences for Maura are catastrophic: her ambitious husband runs for his life, taking the children with him, leaving Maura to lapse into a full-scale breakdown. Life as she knew it is now over. With the help of her father, Ian, Maura works to reclaim her life and waits for a miracle to bring her daughters home. But when the fates align, can the past be forgiven?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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Blueberries for Iris
Overview: While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Incredible Violence
Overview: 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 in a house and becoming the villain in his own slasher movie.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-01
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Long Term Care
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-19
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Body & Bones
Overview: 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 the music of Danny Sharpe (Joel Thomas Hynes), a local legend who left home almost 20 years ago. Tess is stunned when she wakes up one day to find him in her kitchen, igniting a spark of life in her that grows out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-15
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Snarbuckled
Overview: 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 discover the ineffable connection he has with a clown living a desultory existence in a dilapidated lighthouse.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Under the Weather
Overview: There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and support of his sister and her husband and observing his young niece’s blossoming emotional maturity seem to give new meaning to a life he feels he had wasted. With unexpected humour, stark realism and quiet insight, Under The Weather is an uplifting meditation on one man’s graceful surrender to the inevitable and the palpable impact his passing has on those he leaves behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-19
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Hunting Pignut
Overview: 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 steals her father's ashes right out of his urn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Four Sisters
Overview: An old flame dredges up family secrets. Will four sisters finally put their jealousies and misconceptions to rest?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Tour
Overview: 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 tourists and realizes the power of the moments she has experienced in the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Clipper Gold
Overview: 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 feed of moose sausages and tea. Sexual frustration, co-dependency, domestic despair and just a hint of missing male libido all play out within the crestfallen subtleties of opposing table manners and passive aggressive tea-brewing rituals.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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Screamers: The Hunting
Overview: 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 destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-17
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Desperate Scribbles
Overview: A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Sweet Pickle
Overview: 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 his laminated flip book of produce codes could wreak havoc with her newfound confidence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Winners
Overview: 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 school-wide contest to see who can sell the most fertilizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Opioid Scare
Overview: A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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Untold Story
Overview: 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 the right to vote.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Fool Proof
Overview: Fool Proof takes us on an international roller coaster ride as we explore the history and art of clowning. With professional clown Beni Malone as ringmaster, this one hour documentary is a visual feast which celebrates the rich history and recent renaissance of the most animated of performing arts. This journey comes full circle when Malone is joined on stage by his aerialist daughter, Anahareo. Fool Proof combines rare archival footage with fascinating real life stories, to create a springboard into the world phenomena of circus arts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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Surprise!
Overview: Surprise! is a dark comedy that satirizes the art world while taking a provocative look at the increasing problem of the misuse of sexual aid medication in elderly men with young wives.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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