Joshua Marston earned an MFA in filmmaking from New York University in 1998. Prior to that he received an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in Social Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1991-92 he taught English at a high school in Prague. He speaks French, Spanish and Italian and has also studied Czech, German and Albanian. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014) and a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas
Cage, Corben Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan
Silverman, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Speaks Spanish.
Once studied political science at a grad school but did not like it and
left.
Studied film and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
[on Maria Full of Grace (2004)] About a year into the process, I realized that aside from making the film about a girl who lived very far away, I was making a film about a girl who was doing something universal in trying to figure out the meaning of her life.