The Long Long Night
Ashland, Oregon | Series
Comedy
A Comedy Series from Duplass Brothers Productions
The Long Long Night
Ashland, Oregon | Series
Comedy
1 Campaigns | California, United States
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A Comedy Series from Duplass Brothers Productions
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
This isn’t your typical Seed & Spark campaign.
Our TV series has already been created.
Think of this as pre-buying the series before it's released – to see the show early & be a part of our journey.
Rather than give away the power to big distributors and suits, we want to bring our series directly to YOU.
Where a typical crowdfunding campaign is about $ raised, this is about viewership, getting the show out there and showing that indie TV can work. So we will use the pre-buy sales for grassroots advertisements and continue to spread the word on the series.
Let’s put the power in the hands of the audiences and filmmakers.
The Long Long Night follows Pete and Carroll, best friends since they were six, scrambling to build adult lives that contain some semblance of purpose. It's about two people doing their absolute best to try and help..and absolutely not helping. Created by real-life childhood friends Mark Duplass and Barret O'Brien over the course of two-and-a-half years, the series asks:
On a planet with 8+ billion people, can two people make any difference at all?
What if they're willing to put their lives on the line?
What if...um... their plan is super, highly, deeply flawed?
Okay, err, what if they never really had a "plan" plan to begin with?
A comedy that circles ‘round attempted suicide and clinical depression? We don’t get it”*
*quote by someone in a pitch meeting we never took
We did something different: we scrabbled together a small production budget and made six complete episodes. A written, rehearsed, shot, edited, post-produced entire season of independent television. We wrapped our arms around the revolutionaries of literature, film, and music we admire so much and simply did it. The work was built through tons of belief, scores of favors, and an energetic, small core team. A TV series that never had to compromise its integrity, and because of the freedom it was born in, the show grew to be fully what it is:
a tad strange and a splash dangerous.
Once the show was finished, we premiered 2 episodes at Tribeca Film Festival 2023 and screened 1 episode at SXSW 2024.
Now we're ready to bring the full series straight to you!
The Long Long Night is releasing April 28, 2025 on Kinema, but you can pre-order on Seed & Spark for early access (up to two weeks early!) and special perks!
Haven't heard of Kinema? Here's a little more info: Kinema is a social cinema platform for discovering great films and TV series in creative spaces. Filmmakers manage their own non-theatrical exhibition, including screening tours and booking their film or show, users can host in-person, virtual live, and virtual on-demand screenings. Kinema has 200K subscribers and a network of over 65,5000 active screening hosts - activists, community organizers, coffee shop owners, church pastors - hosting screenings in every kind of space from a living room to a school gym to a local theater.
Now that the season is built, we're taking a wild chance on a new model of distribution.
A model that is equally as exciting as it is fully doable. Instead of pleading with one or two large corporate interests who must then plead with many advertising interests, we're coming straight to you, the viewer, to build a grassroots community to self-distribute. We see a wide web of collaborators given the power to show what they want, where they want.
Community-built, community-distributed, and community-viewed storytelling.
Independent film has been around for a few decades, and that freedom has given rise to an entire ecosystem of daring and unique voices. We envision the bridge independent cinema built being used for television to dance across. We're embracing a big picture vision: BRING THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT TO TV. The Long Long Night is made wholly by the artists who dreamed it: dedicated folks who put on many many hats to do this. Now, with your support, we see that bridge, the one we can dance across together, and, by doing so, make it easier for others to follow on. An evolution of television.
A tev-olution!
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About This Team
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DUPLASS BROTHERS PRODUCTIONS
Mark Duplass + Mel Eslyn + Jay Duplass
Under their banner Duplass Brothers Productions (DBP), award-winning filmmakers Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass and Mel Eslyn create original projects for film, television, and digital media. In television, DBP is under a first-look deal with HBO which has yielded the hit series ROOM 104, TOGETHERNESS, and the HBO animated series ANIMALS. Most recently they produced HBO's award winning show SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, starring Bridget Everett which was named an AFI TV Program of the Year in its first season, won a Peabody Award in its second, and is nominated for a WGA award and two Critics Choice awards in its third and final season.
In film, Mark and Jay first gained recognition in the early 2000’s for writing, directing and producing several acclaimed independent and studio films, including THE PUFFY CHAIR, BAGHEAD, CYRUS, and JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. The teams' numerous feature film credits in the decades following have included THE ONE I LOVE, TANGERINE, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, CREEP (1 & 2), THE OVERNIGHT, Spirit Award winning 7 DAYS, OUTSIDE IN, LANGUAGE LESSONS and THE SKELETON TWINS. In 2016, Eslyn won the 2016 Independent Spirit Producer’s Award. More recently they released Eslyn's feature directorial debut BIOSPHERE starring Sterling K. Brown alongside Mark, to much acclaim, as well as Morrisa Maltz's JAZZY which they produced with Lily Gladstone.
The team frequently collaborates with the documentary filmmaker Sam Jones', most recently on his HBO features TONY HAWK: UNTIL THE WHEELS FALL OFF for which they won the Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Sports Program, and JASON ISBELL: RUNNING WITH OUR EYES CLOSED. They also produced the award-winning documentary NOT GOING QUIETLY, which follows the activist and lawyer Ady Barkan as he embarks on a national campaign for healthcare reform. Their documentary LAST STOP LARRIMAH aired on HBO in the states and Netflix internationally, immediately becoming Australia's #3rd most watched show.
DBP is also active in the docuseries television space, best known for producing Netflix’s WILD WILD COUNTRY, winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series in 2018. Additionally, the team produced the critically acclaimed series THE LADY AND THE DALE on HBO, Hulu's SASQUATCH and OUT THERE: CRIMES OF THE PARANORMAL, and Netflix’s popular AMERICAN CONSPIRACY:THE OCTOPUS MURDERS to name a few.
In addition to their acclaim as writers and directors, Mark and Jay appear as actors in various series and films. Highlights for Mark include THE MORNING SHOW on Apple TV+ for which he was nominated for 2020 and 2024 Emmy Awards, the Oscar-winning ZERO DARK THIRTY, YOUR SISTER'S SISTER with Emily Blunt, and BOMBSHELL opposite Charlize Theron. Next up he can be seen leading Hulu's GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY along with Ellen Pompeo. Highlights for Jay include Amazon’s TRANSPARENT, HBO’s INDUSTRY, and Disney’s PERCY JACKSON. This spring he plays opposite Michelle Williams in FX's DYING FOR SEX. While Eslyn attempts to stay behind camera, she is occasionally snuck into films such as DUCK BUTTER, where she, Mark & Jay make cameos playing themselves.
Most recently Eslyn and Mark co-created the series PENELOPE on Netflix, which landed in the Top 10 Most Watched TV Shows in its first week, followed by a Spirit Award nomination for the lead actress Megan Stott. The team also released their latest installment of their CREEP franchise, the episodic THE CREEP TAPES, which in its first week became the #2 trending title on AMC+. This year marks Jay's return to feature directing with 2 films, THE BALTIMORONS (premiering at 2025's SXSW) and SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU. Other upcoming releases include, Nnamdi Asomugha's THE KNIFE which will hit theaters later this year, and Katie Aselton's MAGIC HOUR which will also premiere at 2025's SXSW Film Festival.
ACTOR/DIRECTOR/WRITER
Barret O'Brien has appeared in over eighty works for the international stage in such diverse locales as New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, London, Paris, Budapest, Bonn, and Tblisi, Republic of Georgia. Recent projects include the off-Broadway production of JULIUS CAESAR and the films ABOVE THE TREES, PHOENIX OREGON, REDWOOD HIGHWAY, and the upcoming PELICAN and THE LEMURIAN CANDIDATE. Barret is a graduate of the Yale school of Drama and an award-winning playwright whose plays have seen productions at theatres across the country. Committed to creating work that is gentle on Earth's natural resources, O'Brien has staged work in such unconventional locales as abandoned bars, off-grid farms, dusty book stores, and after-hours soup kitchens. He is also the founder of Wagging Tales, national storytelling workshops that embolden youth to share their voices through the tools of theatre. Barret is part of the growing movement to forefront land stewardship and sustainability in television, film, and theatre production.
ACTOR
Karen Pittman (actor) is an award winning actress, who has starred on Broadway, on television and cinema. Karen starred in the TONY nominated Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play DISGRACED and the critically acclaimed play PIPELINE at Lincoln Center. She has had memorable character roles on THE AMERICANS, LUKE CAGE, and YELLOWSTONE. Karen stars as Mia Jordan on the Apple TV Golden Globe nominated THE MORNING SHOW, as Sandy James in the film WHAT WE DO NEXT, and and as Dr. Nya Wallace in the HBO Max comedy-drama AND JUST LIKE THAT. Her performance in the third season of THE MORNING SHOW earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
ACTOR
Sheri Foster is an American actress and registered member of the Cherokee nation from Texas. Her theatre experiences include THE INDEPENDENCE OF EDDIE ROSE, DEATH OF A MINER, GOD OF VENGEANCE, and touring with the Native American Theater group MYSTIC VOICES. Her film work includes U-TURN (for which she was honored with a Best Supporting Actress Award from First Americans in the Arts), NATURALLY NATIVE, SECONDHAND HEART, and SHOUTING SECRETS. TV credits include HOUSE, CRAZY HORSE, COYOTE WAITS, and UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT.
PRODUCER/AD
Rory O'Neill Schmitt, PhD is a writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. She served as the producer for the award-winning short film, GARDEN DISTRICT, which has participated in over 20 film festivals worldwide. An art scholar and non-fiction author, Rory has published two books with Arcadia Publishing: NEW ORLEANS VOODOO: A CULTURAL TRADITION and NAVAJO AND HOPI ART: CONTINUING TRADITIONS. She has also co-written three screenplays that are in pre-production. Schmitt also coaches and supports faculty in the Masters of Science in Human Resource Management at the University of Southern California Bovard College. She and Barret are sister and brother.
CINEMATOGRAPHER/CO-EDITOR
Gary Lundgren has been making films since he was fourteen, but his official career began in editorial at Warner Brothers Hollywood in the late nineties. His first 35mm short film WOW AND FLUTTER screened at more than forty film festivals world-wide, including Austin, AFI, Hamptons, Flickerfest and Gen Art in NYC. This success led to a feature film production — his award-winning baseball comedy CALVIN MARSHALL starring Steve Zahn. He followed this with the tender drama REDWOOD HIGHWAY (starring film legends Shirley Knight and Tom Skerritt), the sci-fi thriller BLACK ROAD, and PHOENIX, OREGON, a mid-life crisis comedy starring James Le Gros. Gary's production company, Joma Films, shared online profits with shuttered movie theaters and film festivals after its 2020 theatrical release of PHOENIX, OREGON was canceled by the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the number one movie in America for three weeks. Gary’s latest film ABOVE THE TREES enjoyed numerous theatrical engagements in 2024, and his next film, PELICAN, opens this Autumn.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
This isn’t your typical Seed & Spark campaign.
Our TV series has already been created.
Think of this as pre-buying the series before it's released – to see the show early & be a part of our journey.
Rather than give away the power to big distributors and suits, we want to bring our series directly to YOU.
Where a typical crowdfunding campaign is about $ raised, this is about viewership, getting the show out there and showing that indie TV can work. So we will use the pre-buy sales for grassroots advertisements and continue to spread the word on the series.
Let’s put the power in the hands of the audiences and filmmakers.
The Long Long Night follows Pete and Carroll, best friends since they were six, scrambling to build adult lives that contain some semblance of purpose. It's about two people doing their absolute best to try and help..and absolutely not helping. Created by real-life childhood friends Mark Duplass and Barret O'Brien over the course of two-and-a-half years, the series asks:
On a planet with 8+ billion people, can two people make any difference at all?
What if they're willing to put their lives on the line?
What if...um... their plan is super, highly, deeply flawed?
Okay, err, what if they never really had a "plan" plan to begin with?
A comedy that circles ‘round attempted suicide and clinical depression? We don’t get it”*
*quote by someone in a pitch meeting we never took
We did something different: we scrabbled together a small production budget and made six complete episodes. A written, rehearsed, shot, edited, post-produced entire season of independent television. We wrapped our arms around the revolutionaries of literature, film, and music we admire so much and simply did it. The work was built through tons of belief, scores of favors, and an energetic, small core team. A TV series that never had to compromise its integrity, and because of the freedom it was born in, the show grew to be fully what it is:
a tad strange and a splash dangerous.
Once the show was finished, we premiered 2 episodes at Tribeca Film Festival 2023 and screened 1 episode at SXSW 2024.
Now we're ready to bring the full series straight to you!
The Long Long Night is releasing April 28, 2025 on Kinema, but you can pre-order on Seed & Spark for early access (up to two weeks early!) and special perks!
Haven't heard of Kinema? Here's a little more info: Kinema is a social cinema platform for discovering great films and TV series in creative spaces. Filmmakers manage their own non-theatrical exhibition, including screening tours and booking their film or show, users can host in-person, virtual live, and virtual on-demand screenings. Kinema has 200K subscribers and a network of over 65,5000 active screening hosts - activists, community organizers, coffee shop owners, church pastors - hosting screenings in every kind of space from a living room to a school gym to a local theater.
Now that the season is built, we're taking a wild chance on a new model of distribution.
A model that is equally as exciting as it is fully doable. Instead of pleading with one or two large corporate interests who must then plead with many advertising interests, we're coming straight to you, the viewer, to build a grassroots community to self-distribute. We see a wide web of collaborators given the power to show what they want, where they want.
Community-built, community-distributed, and community-viewed storytelling.
Independent film has been around for a few decades, and that freedom has given rise to an entire ecosystem of daring and unique voices. We envision the bridge independent cinema built being used for television to dance across. We're embracing a big picture vision: BRING THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT TO TV. The Long Long Night is made wholly by the artists who dreamed it: dedicated folks who put on many many hats to do this. Now, with your support, we see that bridge, the one we can dance across together, and, by doing so, make it easier for others to follow on. An evolution of television.
A tev-olution!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Share this update!
About This Team
DUPLASS BROTHERS PRODUCTIONS
Mark Duplass + Mel Eslyn + Jay Duplass
Under their banner Duplass Brothers Productions (DBP), award-winning filmmakers Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass and Mel Eslyn create original projects for film, television, and digital media. In television, DBP is under a first-look deal with HBO which has yielded the hit series ROOM 104, TOGETHERNESS, and the HBO animated series ANIMALS. Most recently they produced HBO's award winning show SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, starring Bridget Everett which was named an AFI TV Program of the Year in its first season, won a Peabody Award in its second, and is nominated for a WGA award and two Critics Choice awards in its third and final season.
In film, Mark and Jay first gained recognition in the early 2000’s for writing, directing and producing several acclaimed independent and studio films, including THE PUFFY CHAIR, BAGHEAD, CYRUS, and JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. The teams' numerous feature film credits in the decades following have included THE ONE I LOVE, TANGERINE, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, CREEP (1 & 2), THE OVERNIGHT, Spirit Award winning 7 DAYS, OUTSIDE IN, LANGUAGE LESSONS and THE SKELETON TWINS. In 2016, Eslyn won the 2016 Independent Spirit Producer’s Award. More recently they released Eslyn's feature directorial debut BIOSPHERE starring Sterling K. Brown alongside Mark, to much acclaim, as well as Morrisa Maltz's JAZZY which they produced with Lily Gladstone.
The team frequently collaborates with the documentary filmmaker Sam Jones', most recently on his HBO features TONY HAWK: UNTIL THE WHEELS FALL OFF for which they won the Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Sports Program, and JASON ISBELL: RUNNING WITH OUR EYES CLOSED. They also produced the award-winning documentary NOT GOING QUIETLY, which follows the activist and lawyer Ady Barkan as he embarks on a national campaign for healthcare reform. Their documentary LAST STOP LARRIMAH aired on HBO in the states and Netflix internationally, immediately becoming Australia's #3rd most watched show.
DBP is also active in the docuseries television space, best known for producing Netflix’s WILD WILD COUNTRY, winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series in 2018. Additionally, the team produced the critically acclaimed series THE LADY AND THE DALE on HBO, Hulu's SASQUATCH and OUT THERE: CRIMES OF THE PARANORMAL, and Netflix’s popular AMERICAN CONSPIRACY:THE OCTOPUS MURDERS to name a few.
In addition to their acclaim as writers and directors, Mark and Jay appear as actors in various series and films. Highlights for Mark include THE MORNING SHOW on Apple TV+ for which he was nominated for 2020 and 2024 Emmy Awards, the Oscar-winning ZERO DARK THIRTY, YOUR SISTER'S SISTER with Emily Blunt, and BOMBSHELL opposite Charlize Theron. Next up he can be seen leading Hulu's GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY along with Ellen Pompeo. Highlights for Jay include Amazon’s TRANSPARENT, HBO’s INDUSTRY, and Disney’s PERCY JACKSON. This spring he plays opposite Michelle Williams in FX's DYING FOR SEX. While Eslyn attempts to stay behind camera, she is occasionally snuck into films such as DUCK BUTTER, where she, Mark & Jay make cameos playing themselves.
Most recently Eslyn and Mark co-created the series PENELOPE on Netflix, which landed in the Top 10 Most Watched TV Shows in its first week, followed by a Spirit Award nomination for the lead actress Megan Stott. The team also released their latest installment of their CREEP franchise, the episodic THE CREEP TAPES, which in its first week became the #2 trending title on AMC+. This year marks Jay's return to feature directing with 2 films, THE BALTIMORONS (premiering at 2025's SXSW) and SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU. Other upcoming releases include, Nnamdi Asomugha's THE KNIFE which will hit theaters later this year, and Katie Aselton's MAGIC HOUR which will also premiere at 2025's SXSW Film Festival.
ACTOR/DIRECTOR/WRITER
Barret O'Brien has appeared in over eighty works for the international stage in such diverse locales as New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, London, Paris, Budapest, Bonn, and Tblisi, Republic of Georgia. Recent projects include the off-Broadway production of JULIUS CAESAR and the films ABOVE THE TREES, PHOENIX OREGON, REDWOOD HIGHWAY, and the upcoming PELICAN and THE LEMURIAN CANDIDATE. Barret is a graduate of the Yale school of Drama and an award-winning playwright whose plays have seen productions at theatres across the country. Committed to creating work that is gentle on Earth's natural resources, O'Brien has staged work in such unconventional locales as abandoned bars, off-grid farms, dusty book stores, and after-hours soup kitchens. He is also the founder of Wagging Tales, national storytelling workshops that embolden youth to share their voices through the tools of theatre. Barret is part of the growing movement to forefront land stewardship and sustainability in television, film, and theatre production.
ACTOR
Karen Pittman (actor) is an award winning actress, who has starred on Broadway, on television and cinema. Karen starred in the TONY nominated Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play DISGRACED and the critically acclaimed play PIPELINE at Lincoln Center. She has had memorable character roles on THE AMERICANS, LUKE CAGE, and YELLOWSTONE. Karen stars as Mia Jordan on the Apple TV Golden Globe nominated THE MORNING SHOW, as Sandy James in the film WHAT WE DO NEXT, and and as Dr. Nya Wallace in the HBO Max comedy-drama AND JUST LIKE THAT. Her performance in the third season of THE MORNING SHOW earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
ACTOR
Sheri Foster is an American actress and registered member of the Cherokee nation from Texas. Her theatre experiences include THE INDEPENDENCE OF EDDIE ROSE, DEATH OF A MINER, GOD OF VENGEANCE, and touring with the Native American Theater group MYSTIC VOICES. Her film work includes U-TURN (for which she was honored with a Best Supporting Actress Award from First Americans in the Arts), NATURALLY NATIVE, SECONDHAND HEART, and SHOUTING SECRETS. TV credits include HOUSE, CRAZY HORSE, COYOTE WAITS, and UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT.
PRODUCER/AD
Rory O'Neill Schmitt, PhD is a writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. She served as the producer for the award-winning short film, GARDEN DISTRICT, which has participated in over 20 film festivals worldwide. An art scholar and non-fiction author, Rory has published two books with Arcadia Publishing: NEW ORLEANS VOODOO: A CULTURAL TRADITION and NAVAJO AND HOPI ART: CONTINUING TRADITIONS. She has also co-written three screenplays that are in pre-production. Schmitt also coaches and supports faculty in the Masters of Science in Human Resource Management at the University of Southern California Bovard College. She and Barret are sister and brother.
CINEMATOGRAPHER/CO-EDITOR
Gary Lundgren has been making films since he was fourteen, but his official career began in editorial at Warner Brothers Hollywood in the late nineties. His first 35mm short film WOW AND FLUTTER screened at more than forty film festivals world-wide, including Austin, AFI, Hamptons, Flickerfest and Gen Art in NYC. This success led to a feature film production — his award-winning baseball comedy CALVIN MARSHALL starring Steve Zahn. He followed this with the tender drama REDWOOD HIGHWAY (starring film legends Shirley Knight and Tom Skerritt), the sci-fi thriller BLACK ROAD, and PHOENIX, OREGON, a mid-life crisis comedy starring James Le Gros. Gary's production company, Joma Films, shared online profits with shuttered movie theaters and film festivals after its 2020 theatrical release of PHOENIX, OREGON was canceled by the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the number one movie in America for three weeks. Gary’s latest film ABOVE THE TREES enjoyed numerous theatrical engagements in 2024, and his next film, PELICAN, opens this Autumn.