Joshua Marston
American screenwriter and film director (born 1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joshua Jacob Marston (born August 13, 1968) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace.
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Born | (1968-08-13) August 13, 1968 (age 55) |
Occupation(s) | screenwriter, film director |
Born in Los Angeles County, California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War.[1] He returned to the United States and earned a master's degree in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1994 before earning a Master of Fine Arts in film at New York University.[2]
Marston also directed an episode of Six Feet Under, and Episode 7 of The Newsroom in 2012. Marston directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You.
His 2011 film The Forgiveness of Blood premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Bear.[3][4] Along with Andamion Murataj, Marston won the Silver Bear for Best Script.[5]
In 2016, Marston made his English-language debut on Complete Unknown starring Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon, which had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[6][7] The film was released on August 26, 2016, by Amazon Studios & IFC Films.[8] In 2018, his film Come Sunday was released on Netflix.