Chase Joynt is an award-winning film director and writer. His debut 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; it also received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 and receive praise from The New Yorker and IndieWire. Vantage Points is a remarkable hybrid of queer memoir and media studies. Following the death of his grandfather, Chase uncovered a box of newly procured family documents that revealed his never-before known connection to the media theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan. The discovery inspired Chase to write Vantage Points, a kaleidoscopic reckoning with the impact of media and masculinity on the stories we tell about ourselves and our family. In Chase's words, "Discovering McLuhan in my family history gave [me] a kind of necessary permission to think experimentally about how to write toward difficult pasts and connect them to contemporary politics and ways of being. I always knew I didn't want to write a memoir for the sake of writing about a life, but rather to think about the structure of life writing, the methods of how we describe, remember, and represent.

" Vantage Points takes an unorthodox approaching in melding memoir and essays; it uses McLuhan's theories as a framework to think about the production of media and masculinity, as well as legacies of childhood sexual abuse and how we might think to process and represent them. To do so, it stages a series of vignettes that places moments from the author's life in the context of other sources, media, and stories to create a tapestry or "montage-like" experience of reading. Chase is also the author of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award finalist You Only Live Twice (co-written with Mike Hoolboom, published by Coach House Books) and Boys Don't Cry (co-written with Morgan M. Page, published by McGill-Queens University Press). Blurbs forthcoming from Elliot Page (actor and author of Pageboy) and Thomas Page McBee (journalist, screenwriter, and author of Man Alive).