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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.
Filmography10 titles
Crown and Anchor
2018First Assistant Director
2018First Assistant Director
Sweetland
2023First Assistant Director
2023First Assistant Director
Love, Scott
2018Story Editor
2018Story Editor
Behind the Red Door
2003Unit Publicist
2003Unit Publicist
Crackie
2009First Assistant Director
2009First Assistant Director
Away from Everywhere
2017Director, Editor
2017Director, Editor
Party Pirate
2023Editor
2023Editor
Hell or Clean Water
2021Editor
2021Editor
Becoming Labrador
2019Director, Director of Photography
2019Director, Director of Photography
Hopeless Romantic
2018Editor
2018Editor