Justin Simms Movies

Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent...

Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged...

In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a...

A struggling writer emerges from rehab and reunites with his estranged brother, but soon descends into a tragic love triangle and is forced to...

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent,...

Deanne Foley profiles fellow Newfoundlander Mary Walsh, the Great Warrior Queen of Canadian comedy, musing on time wasted as an object of desire and...

Between Two Walls is a political thriller about an aspiring politician whose bid to secure top office is threatened when a dark secret from his past...

A feature documentary about the life of former Newfoundland Premier, Danny Williams

An incisive nuanced look at a family crumbling after their father returns from a war. Before the war showcases Tamara's love and understanding of the...

In 1940s outport Newfoundland, young Sadie struggles to cope with the tragic death of both her parents.

Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—filmmaker Justin Simms...

Alice, a bus tour guide in St. John's Newfoundland with a broken heart unexpectedly tells her tales of love and loss to a group of life-weary...

When two halves of a young couple can't get to sleep one night, a petty argument starts over nothing. As their frustration grows and the fight...

Dan and Liz just want a perfect family; and in a world where families are allowed only one child, they want to make sure they get it right.

When James Downey returns home to Newfoundland for his mother’s funeral, he is faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he had left...

Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local...

A glimpse into the life of a woman who, desperate to board a plane home, deals with unlikely foes: her own shoes.

An intimate meditation on the relationship between a recently widowed husband and his young daughter.

Through a tapestry of reflection, rare footage and her own home, Inuk filmmaker Holly Andersen tells the little-known story of the forced relocation...