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
- Sing the World Better ... (Editor)
2025
- The Muse ... (Additional Editing)
- Flickers ... (Editor)
- A Place to Wait and Watch ... (Editor)
2024
- Seguridad ... (Cinematography)
- Ballad of North Whale ... (Editor)
- 73 Seconds ... (Editor)
- Bedlamer ... (Editor)
2023
- Party Pirate ... (Editor)
- Sweetland ... (First Assistant Director)
- Hebron Relocation ... (Editor)
- The Gaze ... (Editor)
- Close to the Bone: The Film ... (Producer)
- If Not to Die ... (Editor)
2022
- Vegas ... (Editor)
- Bounce ... (Editor)
- Fishbowl ... (Editor)
- Grown in Darkness ... (Editor)
- End of the Line ... (Editor)
- Dead Wife Club ... (Editor)
- Spirit Song Festival ... (Editor)
2021
- Nalujuk Night ... (Editor)
- Hell or Clean Water ... (Editor)
2019
- The Death of Winter ... (Editor)
- Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures ... (Additional Photography)
- Always Going Never Gone ... (Editor)
- Radical ... (Editor)
- Becoming Labrador ... (Director)
- Ghost Artist ... (Editor)
2018
- Hopeless Romantic ... (Editor)
- Crown and Anchor ... (First Assistant Director)
- C Sharp and D Suspended ... (Producer)
- Love, Scott ... (Story Editor)
- Malignant ... (Editor)
2017
- Away from Everywhere ... (Editor)
- Casey ... (Editor)
- Waste It ... (Editor)
2016
- HAND. LINE. COD. ... (Writer)
- Crocuses ... (First Assistant Director)
- The Woman in White ... (Editor)
- Skip ... (Editor)
2015
- The Tour ... (Editor)
- Danny ... (Director)
- Long Term Care ... (Assistant Director)
2014
- Sadie ... (Assistant Director)
- Between Two Walls ... (Editor)
- Boarding ... (Editor)
- Song for Cuba ... (Cinematography)
- Before the War ... (Editor)
2013
- Hold Fast ... (Director)
- Infanticide! ... (First Assistant Director)
2012
- Two Square Feet ... (Editor)
- A Life in the Days of Mary ... (First Assistant Director)
2011
- The White Balloon ... (Assistant Camera)
- Hard Light ... (Director)
- Surprise! ... (Cinematography)
2010
- Snarbuckled ... (First Assistant Director)
- Cardboard Junction ... (Story Editor)
2009
- Crackie ... (First Assistant Director)
- Sweet Pickle ... (Editor)
- The Real Matriarch ... (Camera Operator)
- The Magnificent Molly McBride ... (Editor)
2008
- Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas ... (Producer)
- Down to the Dirt ... (Editor)
- One of Us Cannot be Right ... (Assistant Director)
- Tiger Tom ... (Production Manager)
2007
- Diamonds in a Bucket ... (Editor)
- Here on In ... (Editor)
2006
- Face Machine ... (Director)
- Punch-Up At A Wedding ... (Screenplay)
2005
- Pillowtalk ... (Director of Photography)
2004
- I Dare Not Go ... (Director of Photography)
- Bloomsday Cabaret ... (Assistant Camera)
- The King Hunt ... (Director)
2003
- Behind the Red Door ... (Unit Publicist)
2002
- Swallowed ... (Production Manager)