Chase Joynt

Chase Joynt is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, video artist, and actor, most noted as codirector with Aisling Chin-Yee of the 2020 documentary film No Ordinary Man (2020).[1] An assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria, as of 2019, he 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 Framing Agnes (2019).

He won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2012 Inside Out Film and Video Festival for Akin;[2] in the same year, he had an acting role in John Greyson's web series Murder in Passing.[3] 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.[4]

In 2016 Joynt and Mike Hoolboom coauthored the non-fiction book You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition.[5] The book received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Non-Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.[6]

Career in Cinema

Chase has directed numerous films, many are award winning, or nominated. These include: Two Sentence Horror Stories (TV Series)[7] most recently, in 2021, No Ordinary Man (Documentary)[8] in 2020, Framing Agnes (Documentary)[9] in 2020, Framing Agnes (Documentary short)[10] in 2019, Between You and Me (Documentary short)[11] in 2016, Stealth (Documentary short)[12] in 2014, Akin (Documentary short)[13] in 2012, and I'm Yours (Documentary short)[14] in 2012. Chase has also written two films, Framing Agnes (Documentary[9]) in 2020, and Akin (Documentary short)[13] in 2012. Chase was an editor for the films Stealth (Documentary short)[12] in 2014, and I'm Yours (Documentary short)[14] in 2012. Chase produced Between You and Me (Documentary short)[11] released in 2016.

Courses Designed and Taught at The University of Victoria

As a professor at The University of Victoria, Chase teaches three courses; Queer Cinema, Pop Culture and Social Media, and Gender, Power and Difference. [15]

References
  1. Pat Mullen, "Canada at Cannes: Documentary in the Time of COVID". Point of View, June 25, 2020.
  2. "Margarita grabs audience award at Inside Out Festival". Playback, June 1, 2012.
  3. "TTC offers new platform for mystery". Toronto Star, January 7, 2013.
  4. Dino-Ray Ramos, "Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Unveils Recipients For Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund". Deadline Hollywood, July 9, 2020.
  5. Jade Colbert, "Review: New books from Eleanor Wachtel, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom". The Globe and Mail, May 12, 2016.
  6. "M.E. Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 14, 2017.
  7. "Two Sentence Horror Stories". Chase Joynt. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  8. "NO ORDINARY MAN - Les Films du 3 Mars". Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  9. "Framing Agnes | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre". www.cfmdc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  10. "Framing Agnes | 2019 Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  11. "Between You and Me: The adult daughter of a former pastor imprisoned for child sexual abuse shares her story". Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  12. "Stealth". Labocine. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  13. "Akin | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre". www.cfmdc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  14. "Video | Vtape". www.vtape.org. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  15. "Chase Joynt - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
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