Justin Simms

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada

Justin Simms

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.

Production

2021

2013

Hold Fast

as Director

2006

2009

Crackie

as First Assistant Director

2013

Hold Fast

as Additional Photography

2008

2011

The White Balloon

as Assistant Camera

2014

2014

Between Two Walls

as Assistant Director

2023

2018

Crown and Anchor

as First Assistant Director

2003

Behind the Red Door

as Unit Publicist

2015

Danny

as Director

2022

Bounce

as Editor

2022

Vegas

as Editor

2019

2022

2022

2015

Danny

as Editor

2015

Danny

as Additional Camera

2022

Fishbowl

as Editor

2013

Infanticide!

as First Assistant Director

2005

Pillowtalk

as Director of Photography

2005

Pillowtalk

as Editor

2023

Party Pirate

as Editor

2023

The Gaze

as Editor

2007

Here on In

as Editor

2015

Long Term Care

as Assistant Director

2017

2021

Nalujuk Night

as Editor

2016

2016

HAND. LINE. COD.

as Additional Camera

2016

2014

Song for Cuba

as Cinematography

2022

2006

Face Machine

as Director

2006

Face Machine

as Writer

2008

Down to the Dirt

as Director

2006

2002

Swallowed

as Production Manager

2016

HAND. LINE. COD.

as Director

2019

2008

Down to the Dirt

as Screenplay

2008

Down to the Dirt

as Producer

2019

Radical

as Editor

2018

Malignant

as Editor

2017

Casey

as Editor

2024

73 Seconds

as Editor

2024

Bedlamer

as Editor

2019

Ghost Artist

as Editor

2024

Seguridad

as Cinematography

2015

The Tour

as Editor

2014

Sadie

as Assistant Director

2009

Sweet Pickle

as Editor

2012

2012

Two Square Feet

as First Assistant Director

2016

Skip

as Editor

2016

Skip

as First Assistant Director

2017

Waste It

as Editor

2018

2008

One of Us Cannot be Right

as Assistant Director

2008

One of Us Cannot be Right

as Additional Editing

2008

Tiger Tom

as Production Manager

2014

2012

A Life in the Days of Mary

as First Assistant Director

2014

Boarding

as Editor

2011

Hard Light

as Director

2011

Hard Light

as Writer

2011

Hard Light

as Director of Photography

2011

Surprise!

as Cinematography

2004

I Dare Not Go

as Director of Photography

2019

Becoming Labrador

as Director of Photography

2004

Bloomsday Cabaret

as Assistant Camera

2018

Love, Scott

as Story Editor

2010

Cardboard Junction

as Story Editor

2019

Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures

as Additional Photography

2023

If Not to Die

as Editor

2016

2016

Crocuses

as First Assistant Director

-

The King Hunt

as Director

-

The King Hunt

as Writer

-

The King Hunt

as Editor

2024

Sons

as Director

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