Justin Simms

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Justin Simms

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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 Fil…

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Behind the Red Door

Behind the Red Door

5.4 2003 Movie
Crown and Anchor

Crown and Anchor

7.1 2018 Movie
Hold Fast

Hold Fast

5.7 2013 Movie
Bounce

Bounce

2022 Movie
Crackie

Crackie

5.0 2009 Movie
Sweetland

Sweetland

6.8 2023 Movie
Love, Scott

Love, Scott

6.2 2018 Movie
Becoming Labrador

Becoming Labrador

2019 Movie
A House Built on Lies

A House Built on Lies

10.0 2026 Movie
Infanticide!

Infanticide!

2013 Movie
Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones

Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones

2026 Movie
73 Seconds

73 Seconds

2024 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones

    Movie Director

  2. 2026
    A House Built on Lies

    Movie Editor

  3. 2026
    Sing the World Better

    Movie Editor

  4. 2025
    History's Headlines

    Movie Editor

  5. 2025
    Flickers

    Movie Editor

  6. 2025
    The Muse

    Movie Additional Editing

  7. 2025
    A Place to Wait and Watch

    Movie Editor

  8. 2024
    Bedlamer

    Movie Editor

  9. 2024
    73 Seconds

    Movie Editor

  10. 2024
    Ballad of North Whale

    Movie Editor

  11. 2024
    Seguridad

    Movie Cinematography

  12. 2023
    If Not to Die

    Movie Editor

  13. 2023
    Sweetland

    Movie First Assistant Director

  14. 2023
    Party Pirate

    Movie Editor

  15. 2023
    The Gaze

    Movie Editor

  16. 2023
    Hebron Relocation

    Movie Editor

More credits
  1. 2023
    Close to the Bone: The Film

    Movie Producer

  2. 2022
    Bounce

    Movie Editor

  3. 2022
    Dead Wife Club

    Movie Editor

  4. 2022
    Spirit Song Festival

    Movie Editor

  5. 2022
    Fishbowl

    Movie Editor

  6. 2022
    Grown in Darkness

    Movie Editor

  7. 2022
    Vegas

    Movie Editor

  8. 2021
    Nalujuk Night

    Movie Editor

  9. 2021
    Hell or Clean Water

    Movie Editor

  10. 2019
    The Death of Winter

    Movie Editor

  11. 2019
    Ghost Artist

    Movie Editor

  12. 2019
    Radical

    Movie Editor

  13. 2019
    Becoming Labrador

    Movie Director

  14. 2019
    Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures

    Movie Additional Photography

  15. 2019
    Always Going Never Gone

    Movie Editor

  16. 2018
    Hopeless Romantic

    Movie Editor

  17. 2018
    Crown and Anchor

    Movie First Assistant Director

  18. 2018
    C Sharp and D Suspended

    Movie Producer

  19. 2018
    Love, Scott

    Movie Story Editor

  20. 2018
    Malignant

    Movie Editor

  21. 2017
    Casey

    Movie Editor

  22. 2017
    Waste It

    Movie Editor

  23. 2017
    Away from Everywhere

    Movie Editor

  24. 2016
    Crocuses

    Movie First Assistant Director