Person
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
A House Built on Lies
Editor
Crackie
First Assistant Director
Infanticide!
First Assistant Director
Seguridad
Cinematography
73 Seconds
Editor
Malignant
Editor
Casey
Editor
Bounce
Editor
Becoming Labrador
Director
Tiger Tom
Production Manager
Filmography
- 2026A House Built on LiesEditor
- 2026Sing the World BetterEditor
- 2025History's HeadlinesEditor
- 2025FlickersEditor
- 2025The MuseAdditional Editing
- 2025A Place to Wait and WatchEditor
- 2024BedlamerEditor
- 202473 SecondsEditor
- 2024Ballad of North WhaleEditor
- 2024SeguridadCinematography
- 2023If Not to DieEditor
- 2023SweetlandFirst Assistant Director
- 2023Party PirateEditor
- 2023The GazeEditor
- 2023Hebron RelocationEditor
- 2023Close to the Bone: The FilmProducer
- 2022End of the LineEditor
- 2022BounceEditor
- 2022Dead Wife ClubEditor
- 2022Spirit Song FestivalEditor
- 2022FishbowlEditor
- 2022Grown in DarknessEditor
- 2022VegasEditor
- 2021Nalujuk NightEditor
- 2021Hell or Clean WaterEditor
- 2019The Death of WinterEditor
- 2019Ghost ArtistEditor
- 2019RadicalEditor
- 2019Becoming LabradorDirector
- 2019Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' FiguresAdditional Photography
- 2019Always Going Never GoneEditor
- 2018Hopeless RomanticEditor
- 2018Crown and AnchorFirst Assistant Director
- 2018C Sharp and D SuspendedProducer
- 2018Love, ScottStory Editor
- 2018MalignantEditor
- 2017CaseyEditor
- 2017Waste ItEditor
- 2017Away from EverywhereDirector
- 2016CrocusesFirst Assistant Director
- 2016HAND. LINE. COD.Writer
- 2016SkipEditor
- 2016The Woman in WhiteEditor
- 2015The TourEditor
- 2015Long Term CareAssistant Director
- 2015DannyDirector
- 2014Song for CubaCinematography
- 2014Between Two WallsAssistant Director
- 2014SadieAssistant Director
- 2014Before the WarEditor
- 2014BoardingEditor
- 2013Infanticide!First Assistant Director
- 2013Hold FastDirector
- 2012A Life in the Days of MaryFirst Assistant Director
- 2012Two Square FeetEditor
- 2011The White BalloonAssistant Camera
- 2011Hard LightDirector
- 2011Surprise!Cinematography
- 2010SnarbuckledFirst Assistant Director
- 2010Cardboard JunctionStory Editor
- 2009The Magnificent Molly McBrideEditor
- 2009CrackieFirst Assistant Director
- 2009Sweet PickleEditor
- 2009The Real MatriarchCamera Operator
- 2008Down to the DirtEditor
- 2008One of Us Cannot be RightAssistant Director
- 2008Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador SeasProducer
- 2008Tiger TomProduction Manager
- 2007Diamonds in a BucketEditor
- 2007Here on InEditor
- 2006Face MachineDirector
- 2006Punch-Up At A WeddingEditor
- 2005PillowtalkDirector of Photography
- 2004Bloomsday CabaretAssistant Camera
- 2004I Dare Not GoDirector of Photography
- 2004The King HuntDirector
- 2003Behind the Red DoorUnit Publicist
- 2002SwallowedProduction Manager
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