Conversations from the Sundance Film Festival | Pathways to Your First Feature Film with Carey Williams (EMERGENCY) & Chase Joynt (FRAMING AGNES)
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In this video recorded during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Carey Williams, director of EMERGENCY (winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), and Chase Joynt, Director of FRAMING AGNES (winner of the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards), talk about their journeys to make their first features, including the pivotal moments that led to getting their films off the ground and what they wished they had known before starting. Sundance Ignite's Toby Brooks moderated the conversation.
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Chase Joynt
Writer / Director
Chase Joynt is a director and writer whose films have won awards internationally. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed NO ORDINARY MAN, a feature-length documentary about jazz musician Billy Tipton. Since premiering at TIFF in 2020, NO ORDINARY MAN has been hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.”
Carey Williams
Director
Hailed by Filmmaker Magazine as one of 2018’s New Faces of Independent Film, Carey Williams is a director bringing a unique and visually striking cinematic eye to the exploration of the human condition.
Williams’ short film CHERRY WAVES, won Best Short awards from HBO, NBC Shortcuts, San Diego Film Festival, as well as Best Narrative from Hollyshorts Film Festival. He premiered his feature R#J, a modern-day retelling of Romeo and Juliet, at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and recently completed the feature version of his 2018 Sundance and SXSW Award-winning short film EMERGENCY.
Toby Brooks
Assistant Director, Sundance Institute Ignite Program
Toby Brooks is the Assistant Director of the Sundance Institute Ignite Program, which cultivates and supports a new generation of filmmakers. Brooks has worked for Sundance Institute since 2012, first as the Assistant to the Director of the Sundance Film Festival. From 2012-2017, Brooks was a member of the Emerging Leaders Council at Outfest, a Los Angeles film non-profit that promotes LGBT equality by creating, sharing and protecting LGBT stories on the screen. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he received his B.A. from UCLA.