Joynt takes audiences on a cinematic journey that blends fiction and nonfiction. He follows archival data found on Agnes, the pioneering trans woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender ...

When the world never stops questioning you, do you refuse to answer... or do you play along to get what you want? These questions are at the heart of Framing Agnes, an award-winning documentary about ...

“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past,” Machiavelli noted, and while “Framing Agnes” digs into the archives for a look at the lives of transgender people in post-WWII America, ...

"Quiet but decisive radicality." Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for Framing Agnes, an award-winning documentary that first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Openly transgender director Chase Joynt’s new documentary Framing Agnes is about to debut at the Sundance Film Festival. It chronicles a group of six trans people living in the 1950s and 1960s, as ...

Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Sundance prizewinner Framing Agnes (pictured), which it has slated for a December theatrical release. Directed by Chase Joynt and based on ...

EXCLUSIVE: Framing Agnes filmmaker Chase Joynt, his producing partner Samantha Curley and their production company, Level Ground Productions, have signed with WME for representation, on the heels of ...

Elegant performances are sadly overshadowed in a weighty survey of trans history that's more lecture than story. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” but when it comes to experimental archival ...

The real name of the woman known as “Agnes,” one of the first participants in a sociological study of transgender identity, has been lost to history. But her story is the stuff of folk-hero legend: ...

“Framing Agnes,” a hybrid narrative and documentary feature film that explores trans lives and history, has sold North American distribution rights to Kino Lorber. Directed by Chase Joynt, the film ...

This review originally ran January 22, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past,” Machiavelli ...