2019Nominee
Best Director
Becoming Labrador
Justin Simms
Director · Producer · Writer
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.
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2022Nominee
Career Highlight
Bounce
2018Nominee
Best Writing
Love, Scott
Career Highlights
2009Highlight
Best Director
Crackie
2003Highlight
Career Highlight
Behind the Red Door
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Crackie
Behind the Red Door