The film is a Super Channel, Carlton Films, and Cinegraphe Productions collaboration and a Quebec/New Brunswick co-production. The film was produced by Nicholas Kinsey and Doug Sutherland and shot in Eastern Quebec & New Brunswick. Crew credits include casting by Josa Maule and Julie Matthews, production management and coordination by Andrée Tousignant and Pascale Pomminville, production design by Andrew Long, photography by Nicholas Kinsey, costumes by Judith Cyr, makeup by Tammy-Lou Pate, hairdressing by Michael Bonnette, continuity by Véronique Lefort, 1st assistant director Doug Sutherland, camera assistants Steve Currie and Daniel Greenwood, sound recording by Jordan Roherty and Robert Gemmell, and lighting by Gary Beatty. The 35mm negative film was developed by Deluxe Labs of Toronto.
POST-PRODUCTION
Killing Ruth -
the Snuff Dialogues
A film by Nicholas Kinsey
A Cinegraphe Production
Irena Huljak
(Fragments, Finding Doris)
Dee Wallace
(The Hills Have Eyes,The Howling, Cujo, E.T.)
Kevin Jackson
(Bogus, Hero, Rosewood)
Genre: Thriller
35mm negative / HD CAM SR
Sales Agent: Carlton Films
Contact in Cannes: Canada Pavilion
An extraordinary tale with unexpected twists and turns – the life of a trailer park hitwoman with a shoe fetish... After killing an elderly woman in a nursing home, Ruth befriends the woman’s neighbour and a strange relationship develops between the two women. In their conversations Ruth reveals her life as a contract killer
