Justin Simms
Director · Writer · ProducerJustin 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR24
Sweetland
2023
First Assistant Director
Becoming Labrador
2019
Director
Crown and Anchor
2018
First Assistant Director
Away from Everywhere
2017
Director
HAND. LINE. COD.
2016
Director
- Skip
Skip
2016
First Assistant Director
Crocuses
2016
First Assistant Director
Danny
2015
Director
Long Term Care
2015
Assistant Director
Between Two Walls
2014
Assistant Director
Sadie
2014
Assistant Director
Hold Fast
2013
Director
Infanticide!
2013
First Assistant Director
- Two Square Feet
Two Square Feet
2012
First Assistant Director
- A Life in the Days of Mary
A Life in the Days of Mary
2012
First Assistant Director
Hard Light
2011
Director
Snarbuckled
2010
First Assistant Director
Crackie
2009
First Assistant Director
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
2008
Director
Down to the Dirt
2008
Director
- One of Us Cannot be Right
One of Us Cannot be Right
2008
Assistant Director
Face Machine
2006
Director
- Punch-Up At A Wedding
Punch-Up At A Wedding
2006
Director
- The King Hunt
The King Hunt
2004
Director
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PRODUCER6
EDITOR49
Sing the World Better
2026
Editor
A House Built on Lies
2026
Editor
A Place to Wait and Watch
2025
Editor
- Flickers
Flickers
2025
Editor
The Muse
2025
Additional Editing
History's Headlines
2025
Editor
73 Seconds
2024
Editor
Bedlamer
2024
Editor
- Ballad of North Whale
Ballad of North Whale
2024
Editor
Hebron Relocation
2023
Editor
Party Pirate
2023
Editor
The Gaze
2023
Editor
If Not to Die
2023
Editor
Bounce
2022
Editor
Vegas
2022
Editor
Grown in Darkness
2022
Editor
Dead Wife Club
2022
Editor
Fishbowl
2022
Editor
- Spirit Song Festival
Spirit Song Festival
2022
Editor
- End of the Line
End of the Line
2022
Editor
Hell or Clean Water
2021
Editor
Nalujuk Night
2021
Editor
Always Going Never Gone
2019
Editor
The Death of Winter
2019
Editor
Radical
2019
Editor
Ghost Artist
2019
Editor
Malignant
2018
Editor
Hopeless Romantic
2018
Editor
Away from Everywhere
2017
Editor
Casey
2017
Editor
- Waste It
Waste It
2017
Editor
HAND. LINE. COD.
2016
Editor
- Skip
Skip
2016
Editor
- The Woman in White
The Woman in White
2016
Editor
Danny
2015
Editor
- The Tour
The Tour
2015
Editor
Between Two Walls
2014
Editor
- Before the War
Before the War
2014
Editor
- Boarding
Boarding
2014
Editor
- Two Square Feet
Two Square Feet
2012
Editor
Sweet Pickle
2009
Editor
- The Magnificent Molly McBride
The Magnificent Molly McBride
2009
Editor
Down to the Dirt
2008
Editor
- One of Us Cannot be Right
One of Us Cannot be Right
2008
Additional Editing
- Here on In
Here on In
2007
Editor
- Diamonds in a Bucket
Diamonds in a Bucket
2007
Editor
- Punch-Up At A Wedding
Punch-Up At A Wedding
2006
Editor
Pillowtalk
2005
Editor
- The King Hunt
The King Hunt
2004
Editor
CINEMATOGRAPHER11
Becoming Labrador
2019
Director of Photography
Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures
2019
Additional Photography
HAND. LINE. COD.
2016
Additional Camera
Danny
2015
Additional Camera
Hold Fast
2013
Additional Photography
- The White Balloon
The White Balloon
2011
Assistant Camera
Hard Light
2011
Director of Photography
- The Real Matriarch
The Real Matriarch
2009
Camera Operator
Pillowtalk
2005
Director of Photography
- I Dare Not Go
I Dare Not Go
2004
Director of Photography
Bloomsday Cabaret
2004
Assistant Camera
