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)". 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"; in the same year, he had an acting role in John Greyson's web series "Murder in Passing". 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".
In 2016 Joynt and Mike Hoolboom coauthored the non-fiction book "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition". The book received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Non-Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.
Career in Cinema.
Chase has directed numerous films, many are award winning, or nominated. These include: "Two Sentence Horror Stories" (TV Series) most recently, in 2021, "No Ordinary Man" (Documentary) in 2020, "Framing Agnes" (Documentary) in 2020, "Framing Agnes" (Documentary short) in 2019, "Between You and Me" (Documentary short) in 2016, "Stealth" (Documentary short) in 2014, "Akin" (Documentary short) in 2012, and "I'm Yours" (Documentary short) in 2012. Chase has also written two films, "Framing Agnes" (Documentary) in 2020, and "Akin" (Documentary short) in 2012. Chase was an editor for the films "Stealth" (Documentary short) in 2014, and "I'm Yours" (Documentary short) in 2012. Chase produced "Between You and Me" (Documentary short) 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. 