Chase Joynt (he/him) is a non-fiction filmmaker and writer who works at the edges of genre. His feature documentary The Nest premiered at Hot Docs in 2025; the same year, his feature State of Firsts premiered at Tribeca and went on to win “Best of Fest” at Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sonoma International Film Festival. His hybrid documentary feature, Framing Agnes, premiered at Sundance, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award and the NEXT Audience Award. Named a “Best Movie of the Year” by The New Yorker, the film has played more than 100 festivals internationally and is distributed by Kino Lorber. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which premiered at TIFF and was hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.” He is also the author of three non-fiction 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. With Samantha Curley, he runs Level Ground Productions.

Chase's CEA projects are Inhabit and Untitled Family Project.