Joseph Amenta

Joseph is an award winning genderqueer filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada who focuses on post-genre stories immersed in the underbelly and subcultures of the LGBTQ community. Their debut feature film ‘Soft’ (2022), for which they received the Toronto Screenwriting Conference Breakthrough Artist Award, made its world premiere as an Official Selection at Toronto International Film Festival 2022. They have produced, written, and directed short films screening at festivals internationally, including TIFF and Clermont-Ferrand, in addition to being broadcast through Canal+, Crave, and CBC. Joseph completed the TIFF Writers’ Studio in 2025 for their new feature project ‘Sacred Bodies’ after residencies at the TIFF Talent Lab in 2019 and the Canadian Film Centre Directors’ Lab in 2018. They have an honours degree from Toronto Metropolitan University (Previously Ryerson University) in Film Studies and currently work as a professor at Toronto Film School, teaching students in the Film Production Program.