Justin Simms
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- 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
Movie · Director
Sweetland
Movie · First Assistant Director
Becoming Labrador
Movie · Director
Crown and Anchor
Movie · First Assistant Director
Away from Everywhere
Movie · Director
HAND. LINE. COD.
Movie · Director
Skip
Movie · First Assistant Director
Crocuses
Movie · First Assistant Director
Danny
Movie · Director
Long Term Care
Movie · Assistant Director
Between Two Walls
Movie · Assistant Director
Sadie
Movie · Assistant Director
Hold Fast
Movie · Director
Infanticide!
Movie · First Assistant Director
Two Square Feet
Movie · First Assistant Director
A Life in the Days of Mary
Movie · First Assistant Director
Hard Light
Movie · Director
Snarbuckled
Movie · First Assistant Director
Crackie
Movie · First Assistant Director
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Movie · Director
Down to the Dirt
Movie · Director
One of Us Cannot be Right
Movie · Assistant Director
Face Machine
Movie · Director
Punch-Up At A Wedding
Movie · Director
The King Hunt
Movie · Director