How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as the Daniels, made a movie about a farting corpse. In it, the body washes ashore an island, deserted but for a lone, desperate man. He befriends the corpse, whose flatulence allows the man to ride the cadaver like a Jet Ski. The writer-directors …