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.