Chase Joynt

Chase Joynt is a Canadian writer, filmmaker and video artist, most noted as codirector with Aisling Chin-Yee of the 2020 documentary film No Ordinary Man.[1] An assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Victoria, 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 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.[3]

In 2016 Joynt and Mike Hoolboom coauthored the non-fiction book You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition.[4] The book received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Non-Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.[5]

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. Dino-Ray Ramos, "Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Unveils Recipients For Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund". Deadline Hollywood, July 9, 2020.
  4. Jade Colbert, "Review: New books from Eleanor Wachtel, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom". The Globe and Mail, May 12, 2016.
  5. "M.E. Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 14, 2017.
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