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Director and filmmaker

Chase Joynt is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, video artist, actor, and professor. He attracted acclaim as co-director with Aisling Chin-Yee of the documentary film No Ordinary Man (2020), and as director of the film Framing Agnes (2022). He won two awards at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival for his work on the latter.

Career

Filmmaking

Joynt has directed a number of short documentary films about gender issues, including I'm Yours (2012), Akin (2012), Stealth (2014), Between You and Me (2016) and a short film version of Framing Agnes (2019).

He won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2012 Inside Out Film and Video Festival for Akin; in the same year, he had an acting role in John Greyson's web series Murder in Passing.

In 2020 he received a grant from Inside Out's Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund for the completion of a feature film edition of Framing Agnes, which later premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where Joynt won both the Audience Award and the Innovator Prize in the NEXT program. In 2023, the film was part of the keynote event for the Moving Trans History Forward conference at the University of Victoria, which included a public screening of Framing Agnes and a panel discussion with Jen Richards, Jules Gill-Peterson, Morgan M Page, and Joynt himself.

Writing

In 2016, Joynt and Mike Hoolboom coauthored the non-fiction book You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition. The book received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Non-Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.

In 2024, Joynt received a nomination for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir.

Teaching

Since 2019, Joynt has been an assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria.

Personal life

Joynt is a trans man.

References

  1. Pat Mullen, "Canada at Cannes: Documentary in the Time of COVID". Point of View, June 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Morgan Sharp, "Toronto filmmaker Chase Joynt on framing Agnes". Toronto Star, January 31, 2022.
  3. ^ Kelly Townsend, "Framing Agnes wins two prizes at Sundance". Playback, January 31, 2021.
  4. "Margarita grabs audience award at Inside Out Festival". Playback, June 1, 2012.
  5. "TTC offers new platform for mystery". Toronto Star, January 7, 2013.
  6. Dino-Ray Ramos, "Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Unveils Recipients For Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund". Deadline Hollywood, July 9, 2020.
  7. "Moving Trans History Forward 2023 - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  8. "keynotes - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  9. Jade Colbert, "Review: New books from Eleanor Wachtel, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom". The Globe and Mail, May 12, 2016.
  10. "M.E. Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 14, 2017.
  11. "5 Canadian titles make shortlist for $75K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction". CBC Books, September 18, 2024.
  12. "Gender studies prof's film to premiere at 2022 Sundance Film Festival". December 9, 2021.
  13. "Chase Joynt: RESISTERECTOMY". accessgallery.ca. Retrieved 2022-02-05.

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