FRAMING AGNES

2022 · 75m · Creative Documentary · Trans, Queer, and Female-led

a film by CHASE JOYNT
starring ANGELICA ROSS ZACKARY DRUCKER JEN RICHARDS

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.

Sundance (NEXT Innovator Award, Audience Award: NEXT)
Bergen (Golden Owl) | Ashland (Best of the Fest) | XPOSED (Audience Award)
Hot Docs | Cleveland | Melbourne | Edinburgh | Seattle | Provincetown

LEVEL GROUND presents
in association with FAE PICTURES
with the participation of TELEFILM CANADA and THE TALENT FUND
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS HOT DOCS TED ROGERS FUND XTR INTO THE NOISE
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA YORK UNIVERSITY

THEATRICAL RUN

The Roxy – New York, NY – 1/14/23 (one night only)
Gateway Cinema – Columbus OH – 1/13/23 - 1/19/23
Hippodrome – Gainesville, FL – 1/13/23 - 1/22/23
Northwest Film Forum – Seattle, WA – 1/18, 19, 28, 29
Gene Siskel Film Center – Chicago, IL – opens 1/27/2022
The Lark – Larkspur, CA – opens 1/27/23
Minor Theater – Arcata, CA – 01/29/23 (one night only)
Guild Cinema – Albuquerque. NM – 01/31/22 - 02/02/23
Brattle Cinema – Cambridge, MA – 02/03/23 - 02/06/22
Suns Cinema – Washington, DC – 2/8/23 - 2/9/23
Myrna Loy Center – Helena, MT – 2/9/2023 (one night only)
Dietrich Cinema – Tunkhannock, PA – 2/20, 2/24, 2/27, 3/6
Images – Williamstown, MA – 3/6/2023 (one night only)
Beverly – Las Vegas, NV – opens 3/27
Queens Public Library – New York, NY – 5/31/2023 - 6/4/2023

AWARDS

  • Sundance Film Festival - NEXT Innovator Award, Audience Award: NEXT

  • Bergen International Film Festival - Golden Owl Award

  • Ashland Independent Film Festival - Best of the Fest

  • XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin - Audience Award: Feature

  • Wicked Queer: Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival - Documentary Jury Award

  • Festival MIX Milano - Sky Documentary Award

  • Bates Film Festival - Audience Award: Documentary Feature

  • Queer North Film Festival Ontario - Jury Prize: Best Canadian Film

  • Thin Line Film Festival - Special Recognition Award: Social Impact

FEATURED PRESENTATIONS AND NOMINATIONS

  • OUTshine Film Festival Miami - Runner Up - Jury Award: Best Documentary Feature Film

  • Out Film CT - Centerpiece

  • Queertactics Film Festival - Opening Gala

  • Queer North Film Festival Ontario - Opening Night

  • All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival Pride Mini-Fest - Closing Night

  • FIN Atlantic Film Festival - Special Presentation

  • Queer Lisboa: Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Nomination - Competition for Best Documentary

  • Calgary International Film Festival - Nomination - DGC Canadian Documentary Competition

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

  • Hot Docs | Cleveland | Melbourne | Edinburgh | Seattle | Provincetown

  • BFI Flare | Outfest LA | NewFest Pride | Frameline | Inside Out

  • Vancouver | FIN Atlantic | Windsor | Barrie | Oakville | Forest City

  • Vinokino | Gasparilla | Stockfish Reykjavik | Cinema Columbus | Alexander Valley | deadCenter | Cindependent | Over-the-Rhine | Americana Film Festival (Barcelona)

  • Utopia/Dystopia Berlin | Fragments Festival (UK) | ASU Human Rights | Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film | Faroe Islands Minority

  • Tampa Bay Queer | OUTwatch Sebastopol | Pink Apple Zurich | TRANSlations Seattle | Reel Out Charlotte Pride | Zagreb Pride | KASHISH Mumbai Queer | Leeds Queer | Prairie Pride | Queer Utrecht | Kansai Queer | Queer Lisboa | Out on Film Atlanta | Oslo/Fusion | Rakvere LGBT | Cinema Queer Stockholm | Everybody's Perfect: Geneva Queer | Queer Munich | Hamburg Queer | MIX Copenhagen | Perlen Queer Hannover | LesGaiCineMad Madrid | Brussels Pink Screen | Melbourne Queer | OUT-Film Kenya | Merlinka Belgrade | Mardi Gras Sydney | Rainbow Reels Tokyo | Festival Écrans Mixtes

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

  • Cinemas: Kriterion Amsterdam | Zeiterion Theatre | Denver Film Society | National Film & Sound Archive of Australia | Moving Image at Cactus Club

  • Academic: UCLA Archive Preview | IASPIS Stockholm | UC San Diego | Technische Universität Dresden | Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies Berlin

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