Chase
Joynt
Chase Joynt is a nonfiction filmmaker and writer. He co-authored You Only Live Twice, which was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His documentary Framing Agnes was named a Best Movie of the Year by The New Yorker and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award and the NEXT Audience Award. Joynt co-directed No Ordinary Man, which won nine awards on the international festival circuit and was named a TIFF Top Ten. He won a Telly Award for directing for his work on Two Sentence Horror Stories in 2022. Joynt co-runs Level Ground Productions in Los Angeles and lives in Toronto.
Award History
2024 Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfictionfor Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir
Jury Citation
“Moving, provocative, and insightful, Vantage Points is a remarkable nonfiction kaleidoscope. Using media theory to explore deeply personal experiences and traumas, Joynt creates a dizzying and devastating work that grapples with the long shadows cast by masculinity, heteronormativity, and abuse. Marshall McLuhan’s ideas provide the scaffolding for an assembly of juxtaposed moments, memories, and trenchant cultural observations. These historical asides, though rapid-fire, are never scattershot but deadly accurate. The result is a disorienting and disruptive mosaic, a powerfully challenging work that stays with the reader long after.”—2024 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction jury (Annahid Dashtgard, Taylor Lambert and Christina Sharpe)
