Joshua Jacob Marston (born August 13, 1968) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace.
Joshua Marston | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 13, 1968 |
| 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 2014, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video.
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.
References
edit- ^ Hundley, Jessica (July 15, 2004). DVD RE-RUN INTERVIEW: Fly-on-the-Wall Fiction: Joshua Marston on "Maria Full of Grace." Archived October 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine indieWIRE
- ^ Gallagher, Steve (Summer 2002). 25 new faces of independent film 2002. Filmmaker Magazine
- ^ "The Competition of the 61st Berlinale". Berlinale. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
- ^ "Spacey, Moore and 3D in focus at Berlin film fest". Yahoo News. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
- ^ "The Awards / Die Preise" (PDF). Berlinale.de. Berlin International Film Festival. February 19, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ Lavalee, Eric (November 5, 2014). "Alice in Changes; Rachel Weisz & Michael Shannon Takes Seats at Joshua Marston's Table Drama". Ioncinema.com. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- ^ "SUNDANCE INSTITUTE COMPLETES FEATURE FILM LINEUP FOR 2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL". sundance.org. January 7, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- ^ Mazzanti, Mike (August 10, 2016). "Rachel Weisz Complicates Michael Shannon's Perfect Life in Trailer For 'Complete Unknown'". The Film Stage. Retrieved January 8, 2017.