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.
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.