Editor’s note: This is the fifth chapter of “A Producer’s Path,” an ongoing column for IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking from independent producer Daren Smith. Read the first chapter  here . For four columns, I’ve been making the case that independent film has an architecture problem. We’ve talked about the investors who keep losing money . The distributors who keep quietly burying movies that deserved a fighting chance. The audience that’s been written off as fragmented when really it’s just been ignored. Three factions, three problems. There’s one left. This column is for the filmmakers – and I’m going to be more direct here than I have been anywhere else in this series, because I know who’s still reading this far in. You’re the writer-director who left a stable job to chase this dream. You’re the producer who’s been six months from “the yes” for the last three years. You’re the cinematographer with two festival shorts and a half-finished feature.…