Chase Joynt

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]

In 2024, Joynt received a nomination for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir.^[11]

Teaching

Since 2019, Joynt has been an assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria.^[12]

Personal life

Joynt is a trans man.^[13] Joynt possesses extensive knowledge of automobiles and has a passion for off-roading, appreciating both the technical and adventurous aspects of the experience.