Joshua Marston

Discipline: Filmmaking, Screenwriting

Based In: Brooklyn, NY

Year at Millay: 2003

Awards/Honors: Fellow, Film-Video, Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2014); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2012, 2009, 2005, 2001); Award Winner, Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (2011); Award Winner, Best Screenplay, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL (2011); Nominee, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, The Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA (2005); Award Winner, Best Foreign Film, Argentine Film Critics Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2005); Award Winner, Best First Screenplay, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Santa Monica, CA (2005); Award Winner, Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2004); Prize Winner, Alfred Bauer Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (2004); Nominee, Best New Filmmaker, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, Boston, MA (2004); Prize Winner, Special Jury Prize, Cartagena Film Festival, Cartagena, Colombia (2004); Award Winner, Best First Film, New York Film Critics Circle, New York, NY (2004); Award Winner, New Generation Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Los Angeles, CA (2004); Fellow, Film, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2001); Award Winner, Best of Festival, Canyonlands Film Festival, Moab, UT (1999).

Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Marston

Joshua Marston is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace (2004). Marston earned an MFA in Film from New York University. 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. His 2011 film The Forgiveness of Blood premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video in 2014, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Film Fellowship in 2001.