Director

Justin Simms

Directing

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1.3

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Directed movies: 16Directed series: 0All crew credits: 58

TMDB ID: 1109935

IMDb ID: nm1100152

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2002 - 2026

Years active: 25

Average TMDB rating: 5.3

Wikidata: Q27088170

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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.

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