Ruth Lawrence Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Ruth Lawrence Trailers
Total trailers found: 50
01 January 2014
Between Two Walls is a political thriller about an aspiring politician whose bid to secure top office is threatened when a dark secret from his past comes to light days before the election.
01 January 2010
An old flame dredges up family secrets. Will four sisters finally put their jealousies and misconceptions to rest?
10 November 2018
Hank and his wife, Jules, both in their 40s, set out for a leisurely summer boat ride. As they drift out into the harbor, we quickly realize that things between them are not as peaceful as we've been led to believe.
17 February 2009
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.
18 September 2020
The wedding of their youngest sister, Janet, brings Gwen and Kay home to St. John’s, Newfoundland. While Janet struggles to hide her family’s dysfunction, Kay can’t help but create chaos wherever she goes and Gwen finds herself paralyzed by a past secret.
23 October 2016
On the last day of packing up her home, a woman can't shake the regret she feels about her late husband.
22 June 2019
When there's a knock on their apartment door Thanksgiving Day, Jay decides that today's not the day to introduce his girlfriend and common-law partner, Sam, to his Cameroonian parents.
01 October 2013
Margaret Moores, a novelist, gets herself cloned so the clone can pump out pages and do the housework while she spends time with her family.
17 October 2023
When Tommy is fired twice in the same week and finds out his brilliant best friend and lifeline, Costa, is leaving the country for a better job, he seizes an opportunity to prove his worth by taking his friends on a trip - in a stolen boat.
01 January 2014
An incisive nuanced look at a family crumbling after their father returns from a war. Before the war showcases Tamara's love and understanding of the human heart.
01 January 2012
Dealing with trust issues triggered by a drug addiction, John must deal with the aftermath of his own actions.
18 September 2010
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.
24 October 1994
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.
30 May 2014
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying.
01 September 2017
The biggest snowstorm of 1988 leaves Tom stranded in a tiny basement apartment with his worst nightmare.
01 January 2017
A father strives to give his daughter a perfect life full of happy memories, in spite of a troubling diagnosis and a partner overseas.
10 November 2023
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.
19 September 2015
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.
15 September 2019
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.
15 September 2023
While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.
11 June 2018
A young man struggles to explain the cultural nuance of saying "I love you" in Spanish to his English-speaking lovers.
14 September 2018
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.
01 January 2012
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.
19 March 2023
Darrell Simms is a wise and eloquent gay man in his mid-50s, but for more than 30 years his life has been dominated by an addiction to cocaine.
01 January 2009
After 30 years of salt beef and baloney, the instinctively vegan Isabel hops a bay bus to the city supermarket.
30 August 2008
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.
15 September 2018
Everyone has a different story to tell, especially when it comes to relationships. Lynda Boyd stars as Anna, a recently widowed cardiologist facing romantic challenges.
20 June 2019
A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.
15 September 2017
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.
27 January 2002
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.
05 March 2013
An 11 year old boy pays a farewell visit to his estranged father. What ensues is a strained and inappropriate, but heartfelt exchange between a father and son whose paths have crossed for the briefest of moments and likely won't again for a long time.
01 January 2019
The Cut of It is a unique exploration of the decisions real women made when they were diagnosed with cancer.
01 January 2011
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.
11 September 2025
Vivian and Harold's camping trip reveals their tensions, leading to a life-or-death situation as they confront their past.
01 January 1999
When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memories of visiting his father two days previously have vanished.
16 September 1998
Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
18 May 2018
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.
06 September 2013
A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.
23 October 2012
A woman looks past her insecurities in a time of change, self doubt and uncertainty.
26 October 2013
Claudia Guillermo, a Cuban graduate student in a foreign city, and is having a very, very bad day. A wallet left at home is getting in the way of making new friends, and passing a crucial exam.
01 January 1999
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.
05 October 2014
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.
01 October 2015
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.
19 September 2020
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.
01 December 2002
Fool Proof takes us on an international roller coaster ride as we explore the history and art of clowning.
28 October 2016
Edda, a parrot-woman hybrid, and former circus performer, struggles to deal with her daughter's new found embarrassment of her freakish family.
01 January 2022
On September 7, 2012, Ashley MacDonald was sexually assaulted. In this powerful first time film, she talks to strangers about what that same day looked like in their own lives.
01 January 2009
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.
01 January 2010
A hit man performs a morning job and an afternoon job then that evening he goes out on a blind date (on line date).
15 September 2013
A tragic story of the death of a little girl, and the sister who thought she killed her.
