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Ruth Lawrence

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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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Everything Christmas

Everything Christmas

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.
5.6

Year:

2023

Blueberries for Iris

Blueberries for Iris

While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.
0.0

Year:

2023

Under the Weather

Under the Weather

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.
0.0

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2020

Body & Bones

Body & Bones

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.
4.0

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2019

Opioid Scare

Opioid Scare

A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.
0.0

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2019

Incredible Violence

Incredible Violence

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.
4.2

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2018

An Audience of Chairs

An Audience of Chairs

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?
5.8

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2018

Hunting Pignut

Hunting Pignut

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.
2.0

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2017

The Tour

The Tour

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.
0.0

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2015

Long Term Care

Long Term Care

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.
0.0

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2015

Clipper Gold

Clipper Gold

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.
0.0

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2014

Desperate Scribbles

Desperate Scribbles

A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.
0.0

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2013

Cracker Barrel

Cracker Barrel

Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.
0.0

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2012

Winners

Winners

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.
0.0

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2012

Surprise!

Surprise!

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.
0.0

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2011

Snarbuckled

Snarbuckled

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.
0.0

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2010

Four Sisters

Four Sisters

An old flame dredges up family secrets. Will four sisters finally put their jealousies and misconceptions to rest?
0.0

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2010

Screamers: The Hunting

Screamers: The Hunting

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.
5.0

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2009

Cut from the Same Cloth

Cut from the Same Cloth

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.
0.0

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2009

Sweet Pickle

Sweet Pickle

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.
0.0

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2009

Behind the Wall

Behind the Wall

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.
4.8

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2008

Fool Proof

Fool Proof

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.
0.0

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2002

Random Passage

Random Passage

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.
0.0

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2002

The Untold Story

The Untold Story

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.
0.0

Year:

1999

Anchor Zone

Anchor Zone

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.
4.0

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1994