BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ics.py - http://git.io/lLljaA BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:December 12\, 2022 : 6:00 PM : Cornerstone Screening Room\n\n In 1958\, a young trans woman named Agnes entered a study about sex disorders at UCLA to get the gender-affirming care she needed\, by any means necessary. Her story was long considered to be exceptional until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Directed by Chase Joynt (NO ORDINARY MAN) and featuring an all-star cast of transgender artists and actors\, FRAMING AGNES uses re-enactment and genre-blurring storytelling techniques to breathe new life into previously unknown people who redefined gender in the midcentury. Featuring Angelica Ross\, Jen Richards\, Zackary Drucker\, Silas Howard\, Max Wolf Valerio\, and Stephen Ira. Q&\;A following the film.\n\n\n\n“Framing Agnes” is co-sponsored by The Department of Sociology\, The Feminist and Gender Studies Program\, Film and Media Studies\, and the Butler Center as part of the VSFC Fall 2022 series.\n\n\n\nChase Joynt (he/him) is a director and writer whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. His debut documentary feature\, Framing Agnes\, will premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. With Aisling Chin-Yee\, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man\, a feature-length documentary about jazz musician Billy Tipton\, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival 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.” The film has won 9 awards on the international festival circuit\, including being named to TIFF Canada’s Top Ten. Joynt’s first book You Only Live Twice (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom) was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and CBC. Chase also directed episodes of Two Sentence Horror Stories for the CW\, which are now streaming on Netflix. With Samantha Curley\, Chase runs Level Ground Productions\, a collaboratively run production company in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\nKristen Schilt (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago\, where she directs the Center for the Study of Gender &\; Sexuality. She is the author of Just One of the Guys: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Inequality and the co-editor of Other\, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology. Her work has appeared in Gender &\; Society and other journals. In 2019 she co-directed a short film with Chase Joynt\, Framing Agnes that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. This event is open to the general public. https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/calendar/details.html?EventID=50789&\;booking=1SEQUENCE:0\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/5734 DTEND:20221213T030000Z LOCATION:Cornerstone 131 (Screening Room) - Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center\, 825 N. Cascade Ave. DTSTART:20221213T010000Z SUMMARY:Film Screening: “Framing Agnes” with filmmakers Chase Joynt and Kristen Schilt UID:54ad5d6c-1d2b-4fc9-b9aa-0b3525803f8e END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR