- Born
- Birth nameDerrick Lee Sims
- While studying journalism, Sims directed and shot a short, American Civil War film that was later chosen to play before IMAX revival screenings of Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil (1999). Notoriety from that film led to a position on War Eagle, Arkansas (2007), and in 2008, Sims served as director of photography on The River Within (2009), his first feature as cinematographer.
In 2011, he returned to Arkansas to make his feature directorial-debut, Come Morning (2012). Sims also wrote, photographed, and edited the film. Come Morning (2012) premiered at the 2012 Austin Film Festival, and in 2013, the Oxford Film Festival awarded Sims and his crew a special jury prize for cinematography. The film received the Charles B. Pierce Best of Fest award in 2014.
In 2016, Sims jumped back into the writer/director chair for The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018). Host premiered in Austin in 2018.
He is the founder of Fabled Motion Pictures and Fabled Effects House and now lives and works in New Zealand.
- IMDb mini biography by: Robin
- SpouseAlaina McClellan Sims(July 3, 2004 - present)
- The Battle of Marks' Mill (2005), directed and photographed by Derrick Sims, premiered December 13, 2005 before IMAX screenings of Ride with the Devil (1999).
- At the 2013 Oxford Film Festival, Sims was awarded a special jury award for cinematography for his work in Come Morning (2012).
- Wellington, New Zealand: Editing The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018).
- Instructor of film analysis and production at Northwest Arkansas Academy of Fine Arts 2007-2008.
- His documentary, Murderous, was a selection at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2006.
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