The Duplass Brothers

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwpvdw/directors-mark-and-jay-duplass-discuss-their-new-series-togetherness 

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/609349238/duplass-brothers-on-working-together-and-growing-apart-we-are-ex-soulmates

• Film makers making TV
• Turning 40, feel like outsiders to LA 
• So many stories and so much material, felt more like tv show than movie
• TV is open universe, Film is closed - Arcs shift and change, like real life. Form is well suited to documentary style storytelling
• Takes archetypes and tries to subvert them 
• Draw a lot from own lives and own experiences - some characters being almost fully autobiographical 
• Both act/direct/write
• Improvisational style similar to Swanberg - searching for documentary realism 
• Have control as directors and actors but strong cast allows their own freedom 
• Jay Duplass has been Camera A on all prior projects
• As brothers gave worked together all life and know each other's strengths and weaknesses, stepping up to lead cast, crew etc when other less up to role - other usually having creative breakthroughs from more withdrawn state
• Admittedly very lenient directors - wanted to be like coen brothers in control but "got our asses kicked". Now very relaxed looking for relaxed, inspired lightning strikes on set - as a collaborative effort 
• TV gives more creative and action space on set than film. 
• Very strict writer/directors, used to make a movie every year or two