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Chase Joynt

Chase Joynt

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),[1] and as director of the film Framing Agnes (2022).[2] He won two awards at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival for his work on the latter.[3]

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.[4][5]

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,[6] which later premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival,[2] where Joynt won both the Audience Award and the Innovator Prize in the NEXT program.[3] 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.[7][8]

Writing

In 2016, Joynt and Mike Hoolboom coauthored the non-fiction book You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition.[9] The book received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Non-Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.[10]

Teaching

Since 2019, Joynt has been an assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria.[11]

Personal life

Joynt is a trans man.[12]

References

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