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.