- 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). (August 2016)
- NWA Academy of Fine Arts (film department) Rogers, AR (January 2007)
- While at university, his films Say I Love You and One Night (2006) won the audience award and best narrative short, respectively, at the Arkadelphia Student Film Festival.
- 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.
- He wrote Come Morning (2012) when he was 24.
- Though Come Morning (2012) was his feature directorial debut, Sims was also the writer, director of photography, and editor. In an interview since then, he said he'll never again direct and shoot a film at the same time.
- Burbank, CA: Editing Come Morning (2012). (November 2011)
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