Justin Simms
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada
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.
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Editor
Down to the Dirt
Producer
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Director
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Director
Down to the Dirt
Screenplay
Down to the Dirt
Producer
Down to the Dirt
Assistant Director
One of Us Cannot be Right
Additional Editing
One of Us Cannot be Right
Production Manager
Tiger Tom
