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]
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 2016, Joynt and Mike Hoolboom coauthored the non-fiction book You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition.[7] The book received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Non-Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.[8]
Since 2019, Joynt has been an assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria.[9]