Joynt has directed a number of feature and short documentary films, and has worked in fiction filmmaking as well. He won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2012
Inside Out Film and Video Festival for
Akin; in the same year, he had an acting role in
John Greyson's web series
Murder in Passing. In 2020 he received a grant from Inside Out's Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund for the completion of a feature film edition of
Framing Agnes, which later premiered at the
2022 Sundance Film Festival, where Joynt won both the Audience Award and the Innovator Prize in the NEXT program. In 2023, the film was part of the keynote event for the
Moving Trans History Forward conference at the University of Victoria, which included a public screening of
Framing Agnes and a panel discussion with
Jen Richards,
Jules Gill-Peterson, Morgan M Page, and Joynt himself.
No Ordinary Man Co-directed with
Aisling Chin-Yee,
No Ordinary Man was Joynt's first feature film.
No Ordinary Man was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress and premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival in 2020. IndieWire called the film "an elegant riff on a classic progression that arrives at something transcendent."
Framing Agnes Expanding on his 2019 short film of the same name,
Framing Agnes was Joynt's second feature film. After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of trans actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access. Agnes, the pseudonymized transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel's gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has stood as a figure in trans history.
Sundance Film Festival said of the film: "Joynt's signature form-rupturing style radically reenvisions the imposition of the frame on the cultural memory of transness through his brilliantly crafted, communally-driven excavation. This reclamation tears away with remarkable precision the myth of isolation as the mode of existence of transgender history-makers, breathing new life into a lineage of collaborators and conspirators who have been forgotten for far too long."
Framing Agnes won both the Next Innovator Award and the Audience Award from the 2022
Sundance Film Festival.
Two Sentence Horror Stories Alongside documentary features, Joynt has also directed an episode of
Two Sentence Horror Stories (produced by
The CW and available on
Netflix) about a young transgender boy who is being bullied in high school. Joynt's episode was featured as part of an
Emmy Awards campaign by
Warner Bros. and
TheWrap and won a Telly Award for Directing in 2022. That same year, Joynt was awarded the Dream Maker Award by the
Cleveland International Film Festival, which recognized a "trailblazing director in contemporary LGBTQ cinema."
The Nest Made in collaboration with Julietta Singh and
The National Film Board of Canada,
The Nest is a feature-length documentary directed by Joynt. At the end of her mother's life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to her childhood home in Manitoba, where her mother had lived for decades, following a serious health crisis. As she investigates the history of the house, she uncovers generations of women connected to it, including figures who confronted colonialism, racism, sexism, and ableism.
State of Firsts State of Firsts is a 2025 feature-length documentary that follows U.S. Representative
Sarah McBride during her historic campaign and election as the first openly transgender member of the
United States Congress. Filmed with immersive, behind-the-scenes access, the film captures McBride's navigation of political life amid public scrutiny, opposition, and the broader challenges of representation in contemporary American politics. The documentary also explores the personal and institutional pressures of being a "first," including a featured conversation between McBride and Representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on visibility, expectations, and political identity.
State of Firsts premiered at the 2025
Tribeca Festival. It will be presented in the Queer Cinema Today section of the
37th Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 2, 2026.
Short films Joynt's short films have screened internationally, winning the Jury Award for Best Documentary (
Bengaluru), Jury Award for Best Short (
Ecuador), Jury Award for Most Promising Filmmaker (
Regent Park), Audience Award for Best Documentary Short (
Seattle) and the EP Canada/ Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist (
Toronto), Best Experimental Short (
Los Angeles), Juror Award (
Ann Arbor, Michigan), Audience Award for Best Documentary Short (
Seattle). Joynt's most well-known short films include
Framing Agnes,
Between You and Me,
Genderize, ''I'm Yours
, and Akin
. The feature-length version of Framing Agnes'' is based on a short film of the same name (co-directed with Kristen Schilt) that premiered at the 2019
Tribeca Festival. == Writing ==