The movie is Welcome to Happiness. It had its second showing (and what they were calling the premiere) last night at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. My wife got to attend, because she happened to be in LA on business. By all accounts it went very well, but sadly, I'm here in MI.

Happily, I'll be in Oklahoma City next week, where it is showing at the deadCENTER Film Festival. I hope to have more news soon about where it can be seen more widely. If all goes well, it will be on streaming services soon, and hopefully playing in some theaters in NY and LA. All up in the air at this point, however. I'm not involved in the negotiations for any of that, so I just hear after the fact what happened. We'll have to have a special edition of the film club once it's available.

As for what constitutes indie, I guess anything that's not financed by a major studio. That's a pretty broad definition, but even expensive movies can be indie if the studio doesn't have control of it. As for our little picture, it was very indie. All the money came from friends and family. Even the score was written and recorded by my buddy and some other friends, so that no one had to be paid for rights.