Joe Chase

Joseph Chase is an American actor/producer/poet. He is the founder and owner of First Amendment Films and is executive producer of the film White of Winter (2003) In addition, he co-produced After the Flood (2001). White of Winter premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2003 and also screened with the IFP as a work in progress in NYC and fully, in Minneapolis. After the Flood was an official entry to the Berlin Film Festival and Mar de Plata Film Festival (2002 - Argentina); this won Robert Saitzyk the Best Director Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (2002). It was also the grand jury award winner at the Long Island film Festival. He is also associate producer for the documentary, Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara (2001), which screened as part of the Native Forum at the Sundance Film Festival (2001) and was awarded the Best Cultural Documentary at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival (2001). It was directed by Robert Brewster and Felix Gehm and culminated a ten year exploration of the Sierra Tarahumara people of Mexico's Copper Canyon region. It is narrated by Peter Coyote. Joseph Chase has written over 250 poems, and is a graduate of Brown University where he was awarded a degree in both English and American Literature, and African American Studies. He studied under John Wilk at both the City College of San Francisco and the American Conservatory Theater, and was apprenticed with the San Francisco Theater Project in 1993. He lives in New Hampshire. He is a cowboy, a pirate, a father.