Ruth Lawrence(I)

Ruth Lawrence is a director/writer/actor in film and theatre. In 2020, her first narrative feature, Little Orphans (2020) (Imagine That Productions), a micro-budget, premiered in Galas across Canada and won the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at Whistler Film Festival. In 2019, she released her first CBC-TV feature documentary, Circus by Komatik (2019) (Fire Crown Productions). Ruth was one of the writer-directors on the 2018 portmanteau feature, Hopeless Romantic (2018) (Northeast Productions). She directed The Ennis Sisters music video, The Ennis Sisters: Your Light (2018), to mark the 100th Anniversary of the CMHA. Her short films include Talus and Scree (2013) and Sweet Pickle (2009). Ruth co-produced the feature Hunting Pignut (2016), winner of two best feature awards, with Pope Productions. She is the director of the 5-episode web series, Buy the Boards (2014) by Luke Lawrence and Matt Wright.