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Marty Lang is a filmmaker, professor and journalist who lives in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in Newington and attended Newington High School, where he was an All-State basketball player.

Marty accepted a basketball scholarship to Teikyo Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1995, and played one year there before transferring to the University of Connecticut. At UConn, he won a national sports journalism award before graduating with a B.A. in Journalism. While in school, his work appeared in the Hartford Courant, Norwich Bulletin, Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press, and Link Magazine, a national magazine for college students.

After graduation, Marty covered entertainment for the New York Times before trying his hand at filmmaking. His first producing credit was on the independent feature A Little Bit of Lipstick, starring Mia Tyler and Soupy Sales.

Armed with this experience, Marty was accepted into the Florida State University Graduate Film Conservatory in 2002. In two years, he worked on over 50 short films. In 2003, he associate produced the Student Academy Award-winning comedy The Plunge and produced the comedy The Butler of the Van der Waal House, which won Best Short Film at the 2005 Asheville (N.C.) Film Festival. He also wrote and directed the comedy Cheap as Hell: A Christmas Story, which won "The Precious" at the 2005 New Haven (Conn.) Underground Film Festival.

In 2004, Marty co-produced Fields of Mudan, a drama that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Florida Film Festival, qualifying it for the 2006 Oscar for Best Short Film. He also worked with Zide/Perry Films and Magnet Management in Los Angeles.

In 2006, Marty co-produced the independent comedy Being Michael Madsen, starring Michael Madsen, Virginia Madsen, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine and Lacey Chabert. And in 2007, Marty produced the vampire thriller Fog Warning and associate produced the supernatural thriller The Other Side of the Tracks, starring Brendan Fehr and Tonia Raymonde from "Lost." He teaches film classes at Quinnipiac University, and developed a film industry workforce development plan for the State of Connecticut.