Director
Justin Simms
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.
Directed
Crown and Anchor
First Assistant Director · 2018
Hold Fast
Director · 2013
Sweetland
First Assistant Director · 2023
Crackie
First Assistant Director · 2009
Down to the Dirt
Director · 2008
Away from Everywhere
Director · 2017
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Director · 2008
Infanticide!
First Assistant Director · 2013
Crocuses
First Assistant Director · 2016
Sadie
Assistant Director · 2014
Becoming Labrador
Director · 2019
Snarbuckled
First Assistant Director · 2010
A Life in the Days of Mary
First Assistant Director · 2012
Hard Light
Director · 2011
Face Machine
Director · 2006
HAND. LINE. COD.
Director · 2016
The King Hunt
Director · 2004
Danny
Director · 2015
