This week, Pass the Remote is celebrating both Independence Day and the spirit of independent filmmaking. We checked in with the Northern California filmmakers behind this Friday’s streaming and in-theater release, “First Date.” We had chatted them up just before “Date” debuted earlier in the year at the Sundance Film Festival. The path that co-directors/co-writers Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp followed in making their first narrative film together serves as testament to the ingenuity and the creativity needed to pull off a low-budget feature.