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)
- Sing the World Better ... (Editor)
2025
- Flickers ... (Editor)
- History's Headlines ... (Editor)
- The Muse ... (Additional Editing)
- A Place to Wait and Watch ... (Editor)
2024
- Seguridad ... (Cinematography)
- 73 Seconds ... (Editor)
- Bedlamer ... (Editor)
- Ballad of North Whale ... (Editor)
2023
- The Gaze ... (Editor)
- Party Pirate ... (Editor)
- Sweetland ... (First Assistant Director)
- Hebron Relocation ... (Editor)
- Close to the Bone: The Film ... (Producer)
- If Not to Die ... (Editor)
2022
- Bounce ... (Editor)
- Vegas ... (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
- Becoming Labrador ... (Director)
- Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures ... (Additional Photography)
- Always Going Never Gone ... (Editor)
- The Death of Winter ... (Editor)
- Radical ... (Editor)
- Ghost Artist ... (Editor)
2018
- Love, Scott ... (Story Editor)
- Malignant ... (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)
- Before the War ... (Editor)
- Song for Cuba ... (Cinematography)
- Sadie ... (Assistant Director)
- Between Two Walls ... (Assistant Director)
2013
- Infanticide! ... (First Assistant Director)
- Hold Fast ... (Director)
2012
- Two Square Feet ... (Editor)
- A Life in the Days of Mary ... (First Assistant Director)
2011
- Surprise! ... (Cinematography)
- The White Balloon ... (Assistant Camera)
- Hard Light ... (Director)
2010
- Snarbuckled ... (First Assistant Director)
- Cardboard Junction ... (Story Editor)
2009
- Crackie ... (First Assistant Director)
- The Real Matriarch ... (Camera Operator)
- Sweet Pickle ... (Editor)
- The Magnificent Molly McBride ... (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
- The King Hunt ... (Director)
- Bloomsday Cabaret ... (Assistant Camera)
- I Dare Not Go ... (Director of Photography)
2003
- Behind the Red Door ... (Unit Publicist)
2002
- Swallowed ... (Production Manager)