Justin Simms

Directing·Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada

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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.

Film	Credit
Close to the Bone: The Film2023 · Producer	Producer
Becoming Labrador2019 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
C Sharp and D Suspended2018 · Producer	Producer
Away from Everywhere2017 · Director	Director
HAND. LINE. COD.2016 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Danny2015 · Director	Director
Hold Fast2013 · Director	Director
Hard Light2011 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Down to the Dirt2008 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas2008 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Face Machine2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
PPunch-Up At A Wedding2006 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Pillowtalk2005 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
II Dare Not Go2004 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
TThe King Hunt2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer