Justin Simms
- Directing
- Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones · Director, Writer
- A House Built on Lies · Editing
- Sing the World Better · Editing
- History's Headlines · Editing
- Flickers · Editing
- The Muse · Additional Editing
- A Place to Wait and Watch · Editing
- Bedlamer · Editing
- 73 Seconds · Editing
- Ballad of North Whale · Editing
- Seguridad · Cinematography
- If Not to Die · Editing
- Sweetland · First Assistant Director
- Party Pirate · Editing
- The Gaze · Editing
- Hebron Relocation · Editing
- Close to the Bone: The Film · Producer
- Bounce · Editing
- Dead Wife Club · Editing
- Spirit Song Festival · Editing
- Fishbowl · Editing
- Grown in Darkness · Editing
- Vegas · Editing
- Nalujuk Night · Editing
- Hell or Clean Water · Editing
- The Death of Winter · Editing
- Ghost Artist · Editing
- Radical · Editing
- Becoming Labrador · Director, Cinematography
- Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures · Additional Photography
- Always Going Never Gone · Editing
- Hopeless Romantic · Editing
- Crown and Anchor · First Assistant Director
- C Sharp and D Suspended · Producer
- Love, Scott · Story Editor
- Malignant · Editing
- Casey · Editing
- Waste It · Editing
- Away from Everywhere · Director, Editing
- Crocuses · First Assistant Director
- HAND. LINE. COD. · Writer, Editing
- Skip · Editing, First Assistant Director
- The Woman in White · Editing
- The Tour · Editing
- Long Term Care · Assistant Director
- Danny · Director, Editing
- Song for Cuba · Cinematography
- Between Two Walls · Editing, Assistant Director
- Sadie · Assistant Director
- Before the War · Editing
- Boarding · Editing
- Twice · Editing
- Infanticide! · First Assistant Director
- Hold Fast · Director, Additional Photography
- A Life in the Days of Mary · First Assistant Director
- Two Square Feet · Editing, First Assistant Director
- The White Balloon · Assistant Camera
- Hard Light · Director, Writer
- Surprise! · Cinematography
- Snarbuckled · First Assistant Director
- Cardboard Junction · Story Editor
- The Magnificent Molly McBride · Editing
- Crackie · First Assistant Director
- Sweet Pickle · Editing
- The Real Matriarch · Camera Operator
- Down to the Dirt · Editing, Director
- One of Us Cannot be Right · Assistant Director, Additional Editing
- Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas · Producer, Director
- Tiger Tom · Production Manager
- Diamonds in a Bucket · Editing
- Here on In · Editing
- Face Machine · Director, Writer
- Punch-Up At A Wedding · Editing, Screenplay
- Pillowtalk · Cinematography, Editing
- Bloomsday Cabaret · Assistant Camera
- I Dare Not Go · Cinematography
- The King Hunt · Director, Writer
- Behind the Red Door · Unit Publicist
- Swallowed · Production Manager