Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh

Chase Joynt is a multi-award-winning director and writer. His documentary feature Framing Agnes was named one of the best movies of the year by The New Yorker and won more than 10 awards, including the Next Innovator Award and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which was presented at Cannes Docs as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, No Ordinary Man has been hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and by Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.” The film has won nine awards on the international festival circuit and was named to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. Julietta Singh is an award-winning non-fiction writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to ecology, inheritance and systemic inequalities. She is the author of three books: No Archive Will Restore You (2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (2018) and, most recently, The Breaks (2021), a long letter to her daughter about race and mothering at the end of the world. The Nest is her first documentary feature.