Chase Joynt

Chase Joynt is a non-fiction filmmaker and writer who works at the edges of genre. His documentary features THE NEST and STATE OF FIRSTS both premiered in 2025 at Hot Docs and Tribeca, respectively. His 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, which was presented at Cannes Docs as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, NO ORDINARY MAN has been hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.” For the CW, Chase directed episodes of TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES which are now streaming on Netflix; his episode Elliot from Season 2 won a Telly Award for directing. He is the author of three books. His latest VANTAGE POINTS was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction and named a Best Book of the Year by CBC Books, The Walrus and Autostraddle.