Justin Simms
- Known for
- Directing
- Place of birth
- Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada
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.
Movies directed by Justin Simms
- Hold Fast 2013 · ★ 5.7
- Away from Everywhere 2017 · ★ 3.2
- Down to the Dirt 2008 · ★ 4.2
- Danny 2015
- Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas 2008
- Face Machine 2006
- Punch-Up At A Wedding 2006
- HAND. LINE. COD. 2016
- Becoming Labrador 2019
- Hard Light 2011
- The King Hunt 2004
- Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones 2026