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Joshua Jacob Marston (born August 13, 1968) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace .
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.