What’s your take on Cassavetes? Is there a budding Gus Van Sant in your circle? Maybe a Maya Deren in your midst?

The shopping days are dwindling, yep. But Film Festival in a Box,: a sort of ultra-2010 board game/conversation piece created by a Seattle mom and award-winning former Hollywood director and costume designer named Scilla Andreen, is available via drugstore.com and Uncommon Goods — and, when we last checked, by actually walking into Nube Green.

Remember our whole thing here with these classic gifts is not to overthink it, right? While many a holiday celebrator wouldn’t mind a DVD copy of whatever Zack Galifianakis flick they love best, this locally dreamt-up product takes things one step further.

Inside the pizza-box like packaging, a themed film fest of indie flicks awaits. Zombies, maybe? Love stories? Documentaries, anyone? Watch ’em, discuss ’em, call one the best, one the worst, bond over your hatred of the villain, stay up all night dissecting the plot lines. Like a middle school counselor intent on you sharing your feelings, IndieFlix wants to get you talking about stories and characters. It’s the flip-side of the fun factor, the dinner-and-a-movie thing’s higher calling.

Andreen and her collaborators also want to expose you to unknown filmmakers. Here’s what the New York Times had to say about her, and that, in 2005, and here’s what they said much more recently about Film Fest in a Box. I mean, you know, if the New York Times means anything to you.

Or, more to the point, to the budding Ingmar Bergman in your bunch.