Joshua Marston

Joshua Marston is a New York-based screenwriter and director. His first fiction film, Maria Full of Grace (2004), received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. His second feature, The Forgiveness of Blood (2012), won Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival. His latest film, Complete Unknown, is out now through IFC Films and Amazon Studios. He also directed the Coney Island section of New York I Love You, starring Cloris Leachman and Eli Wallach, and episodes of The Newsroom, Six Feet Under, Law & Order, How to Make it in America, In Treatment and The Good Wife.

Talks

Breaking Out of My Identity as an American Foreign-Language Filmmaker

Film

By Joshua Marston | August 26, 2016

Breaking Out of My Identity as an American Foreign-Language Filmmaker

Joshua Marston on how he broke his run of directing microbudget films in other countries and made a movie in English — with movie stars!

Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) Talks with Jesse Moss (The Overnighters) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Podcast

By Joshua Marston | October 10, 2014

Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) Talks with Jesse Moss (The Overnighters) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

The two filmmakers and longtime friends discuss Moss' Sundance favorite, a compelling and surprising portrait of a North Dakota boom town's pastor.