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"   Photo: Getty Images   When Demetri Martin signed on for In a World\u2026, actress Lake Bell&amp;#039;s feature-length writing/directing debut, he would have been thrilled for the film to just be selected for Sundance. The film eventually won Sundance&amp;#039;s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award\u20142013&amp;#039;s best U.S. screenplay\u2014for its smart, funny, and sharp take on Hollywood. Set in the male-dominated world of movie trailer voiceovers, Bell&amp;#039;s character competes against her outrageously chauvinistic father for a gig. Martin plays the boyishly charming and supportive sound engineer who falls for Bell in a wonderfully awkward romance. With a self-deprecating perspective not unlike Mindy Kaling&amp;#039;s, Bell&amp;#039;s character subverts L.A. stereotypes: she&amp;#039;s unglam, a bit messy, staying on her sister&amp;#039;s couch in Koreatown, and has a group of witty, hip pals.   Martin (Taking Woodstock), a native New Yorker and Yale alum, attended NYU law school before succumbing to stand-up comedy&amp;#039;s siren call. He eventually became an Emmy-nominated writer for Late Night with Conan O&amp;#039;Brien, landed his own Comedy Central show, Important Things with Demetri Martin, and contributed a segment called &amp;quot;Trendspotting&amp;quot; to Jon Stewart&amp;#039;s The Daily Show. He is currently writing his own screenplays, including a film entitled Will. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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