Joshua Marston was born in California. His way to film direction has been atypical. Indeed, he first worked in Paris as a journalist for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War. He later turned to teaching in Prague where he was an English teacher for a year. Back in the USA he graduated in Chicago, becoming a master of political sciences before getting a film direction degree from New York University. He made his first short in 1999.
Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corben Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Did photography in school.
Once studied political science at a grad school but did not like it and left.
Speaks Spanish.
Studied film and graduated from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts.
Has directed one Oscar nominated performance: Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace .
[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. .
