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Embrace the darkness: Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin on movies Hollywood doesn't want to make

Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin, along with Josh Mond, broke through a little over a decade ago with their Borderline Films collaboration, a company in which one of them would direct and the others would produce. The partnership resulted in a series of acclaimed independent films that were as polished as they were unnerving, including Campos' "Afterschool" and "Simon Killer," Mond's "James White" and Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene."

While Borderline Films has ceased operating as a company, the filmmakers' friendship and collaborative spirit remain. Both Campos and Durkin have new films out. Durkin's "The Nest" is an intense, direct look at marriage, family and ambition, with Jude Law and Carrie Coon as a couple in 1980s England driven to the edge of collapse, released to theaters by IFC Films before heading to VOD in November.

Campos' "The Devil All the Time" is a sprawling adaptation of a tale of sin, redemption and generational trauma set in Appalachia from the 1940s to '60s with a cast that includes Tom Holland, Riley Keough, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson. The film is streaming on Netflix and had a limited theatrical release.

The two have also worked in TV, with Durkin directing the British series "Southcliffe" and Campos working on "The Sinner" (which featured "The Nest" star Coon).

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