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