STATE OF FIRSTS
MON, 12/8, 8:00pm, 93 min
BAY STREET THEATER
Director Chase Joynt via Zoom for Q&A
Director: Chase Joynt
Producesr: Jenna M. Kelly, Justin Lacob
Editor: Chris McNabb
Cinematographer: Melissa Langer
The film follows Delaware Representative Sarah McBride’s historic run to become the first transgender member in the U.S. Congress. In a time of intensifying political backlash against the transgender community, McBride fights for dignity, equality and representation. On the night she wins, so too does Trump, sending Sarah to an increasingly hostile new workplace.
Chase Joynt is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, video artist, actor, producer, and professor who attracted acclaim as co-director of No Ordinary Man and as director of Framing Agnes. He won two awards at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival for Framing Agnes, both the Audience Award and the Innovator Prize in the NEXT program.