Justin Simms
Known For: Directing
Biography
Justin Simms is a Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker whose first feature film, Down to the Dirt, received the best Atlantic feature and best screenplay awards at the Atlantic Film Festival. His feature film adaptation Away from Everywhere (2016), based on the Chad Pelley novel of the same name, had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of Telefilm Canada’s Perspectives Canada program. His non-fiction credits include Hard Light (2011), Danny (2014) and the short Hand.Line.Cod (2016), which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Filmography
2026
- A House Built on Lies ... (Editor)
- Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones ... (Director)
- Sing the World Better ... (Editor)
2025
- Flickers ... (Editor)
- History's Headlines ... (Editor)
- The Muse ... (Additional Editing)
- A Place to Wait and Watch ... (Editor)
2024
- Bedlamer ... (Editor)
- Seguridad ... (Cinematography)
- 73 Seconds ... (Editor)
- Ballad of North Whale ... (Editor)
2023
- Sweetland ... (First Assistant Director)
- Close to the Bone: The Film ... (Producer)
- The Gaze ... (Editor)
- Party Pirate ... (Editor)
- If Not to Die ... (Editor)
- Hebron Relocation ... (Editor)
2022
- Vegas ... (Editor)
- Bounce ... (Editor)
- Dead Wife Club ... (Editor)
- Grown in Darkness ... (Editor)
- Fishbowl ... (Editor)
- Spirit Song Festival ... (Editor)
2021
- Hell or Clean Water ... (Editor)
- Nalujuk Night ... (Editor)
2019
- Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures ... (Additional Photography)
- Always Going Never Gone ... (Editor)
- Becoming Labrador ... (Director)
- The Death of Winter ... (Editor)
- Radical ... (Editor)
- Ghost Artist ... (Editor)
2018
- Malignant ... (Editor)
- Love, Scott ... (Story Editor)
- Crown and Anchor ... (First Assistant Director)
- Hopeless Romantic ... (Editor)
- C Sharp and D Suspended ... (Producer)
2017
- Casey ... (Editor)
- Waste It ... (Editor)
- Away from Everywhere ... (Director)
2016
- Skip ... (Editor)
- The Woman in White ... (Editor)
- HAND. LINE. COD. ... (Writer)
- Crocuses ... (First Assistant Director)
2015
- Long Term Care ... (Assistant Director)
- The Tour ... (Editor)
- Danny ... (Director)
2014
- Twice ... (Editor)
- Boarding ... (Editor)
- Song for Cuba ... (Cinematography)
- Sadie ... (Assistant Director)
- Before the War ... (Editor)
- Between Two Walls ... (Editor)
2013
- Infanticide! ... (First Assistant Director)
- Hold Fast ... (Director)
2012
- A Life in the Days of Mary ... (First Assistant Director)
- Two Square Feet ... (Editor)
2011
- The White Balloon ... (Assistant Camera)
- Surprise! ... (Cinematography)
- Hard Light ... (Director)
2010
- Snarbuckled ... (First Assistant Director)
- Cardboard Junction ... (Story Editor)
2009
- Crackie ... (First Assistant Director)
- The Magnificent Molly McBride ... (Editor)
- The Real Matriarch ... (Camera Operator)
- Sweet Pickle ... (Editor)
2008
- Tiger Tom ... (Production Manager)
- Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas ... (Producer)
- Down to the Dirt ... (Editor)
- One of Us Cannot be Right ... (Assistant Director)
2007
- Diamonds in a Bucket ... (Editor)
- Here on In ... (Editor)
2006
- Face Machine ... (Director)
- Punch-Up At A Wedding ... (Editor)
2005
- Pillowtalk ... (Director of Photography)
2004
- I Dare Not Go ... (Director of Photography)
- The King Hunt ... (Director)
- Bloomsday Cabaret ... (Assistant Camera)
2003
- Behind the Red Door ... (Unit Publicist)
2002
- Swallowed ... (Production Manager)