Canadian Film Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Producer and Academic.

Chase JOYNT is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Producer and Professor.

He is known for "Framing Agnes" (2022, Director, Screenwriter, Actor), "No Ordinary Man" (2020, Co-Director), "Two Sentence Horror Stories" (2017, Director).

Chase Joynt is a director and writer whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. His debut documentary feature, "Framing Agnes", was named a Best Movie of the Year by The New Yorker after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the NEXT Innovator Award and the NEXT Audience Award. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed "No Ordinary Man", a feature-length documentary about jazz musician Billy Tipton, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2020, "No Ordinary Man" has been hailed by The New Yorker as "a genre unto itself" and Indiewire as "the future of trans cinema." The film has won 9 awards on the international festival circuit, including being named to TIFF Canada's Top Ten. Joynt is the author of two books: the Lambda Literary Award Finalist You Only Live Twice (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom) and Boys Don't Cry with Morgan M Page. Most recently, he directed episodes of Two Sentence Horror Stories for the CW, which are now streaming on Netflix. His episode Elliot from Season 2 won a Telly Award for directing in 2022. With Samantha Curley, Chase runs Level Ground Productions in Los Angeles.

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

Joined UVic Gender Studies in 2019
After seeing my work in public, people often ask: "Are you a film person invested in gender theory or a gender studies person who also makes films?" The boundaries, investments and tensions revealed by these questions are emblematic of my interdisciplinary artistic practice and scholarly pursuits. My research sits at the intersection of cinema and media studies, gender and feminist studies, documentary film production, trans studies, and queer theory.

Research Interests:
- Cinema and Media
- Art and Aesthetics
- Practice-Based Research
- Transgender Studies

Courses Designed and Taught:
- Queer Cinema
- Pop Culture and Social Media
- Gender, Power and Difference


Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- www.chasejoynt.com/
- www.imdb.com/name/nm4958530/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Joynt
- www.uvic.ca/humanities/gender/people/faculty/joynt-chase.php
Updated by Thierno DIA, 18 June 2023