This skeleton crew uses local ingredients to create satisfying, pre-packaged meals.

It’s both a simple and complex question: What does it take to follow a desired career path? One that brings joy, creativity and, of course, very little money? For Sunshine Dunning — Culinary Institute of America alum, former executive sous chef at the Mayflower Hotel and private chef for years — fulfilling these goals amounted to a very bleak period in her life.

Couldn’t make it to Sundance? Always wanted to see the New York Film Festival but never got the chance? Living in a place where “art film” means Eat, Pray, Love?

Pine no more. Scilla Andreen, award-winning producer, director, costume-designer, co-founder and CEO of Indieflix — and one of very few voting members of The Academy (as in the Oscars) here in Seattle — brings indie films to your living room with her interactive movie game Film Festival in a Box.