Framing Agnes

Framing Agnes (2022)

After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being forced to choose between honesty and access.

Date of release
2022-11-17
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Chase Joynt

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance Audience Award Best of NEXT; Sundance NEXT Innovator Prize

Framing Agnes is a 2022 Canadian documentary film, directed by Chase Joynt. An examination of transgender histories, the film centres on Joynt and a cast of transgender actors reenacting various case studies from Harold Garfinkel's work with transgender clients at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

The film is an expansion of Joynt's short film of the same title, which premiered in 2019.

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