Waco Convention Center
Nov 15th & 16th
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15th, 7:00pm
Waco Convention Center
BELIEVERS
A small town church prepares for a community Chili cookoff, searches for a new pastor, and tries to keep their building from falling down. (73 min)
Join us for this hilarious, Waco-made mockumentary! It’s a film full of familiar faces, local sights and lots of laughs.
Directed by Garrett Williams
Starring Matthew Clowers as "Matthew"
BJ Williams as "Bob Payne"
Melora Roach as "Susie Payne"
Jack Rochelle as “Ben” and more members of the Waco theater community
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 12:00pm - 4pm
Waco Convention Center
REEL STORIES
Science Shorts
Waco Indie continues its annual documentary showcase with a selection of STEM based short films. This all ages program dives into the science of recycling, the importance of bees and much more!
12:00pm & 2pm - Reinventing Recycling (40 mins)
With the US recycling system teetering on the point of collapse, and a global plastic pollution crisis on the horizon, a group of determined scientists and engineers engage in a race to rescue recycling.
Directed by Jay Windland
1:00pm & 3pm - STEM SHORTS (30 mins)
A collection of bite-sized science stories including:
The Bee Farmers
A one-of-a-kind program based in the Pacific Northwest that rents bees to residential customers which in turn are used to pollinate farms around the US. (7 mins)
The Unseen
Timo, the songbird, is busy making his nest, when he hears a reply to his mating call. Desperate to find his mate, he takes flight, only to find the source of the reply is not what he had hoped. (3 mins)
Directed by Francesco Guarini
Gravitational Lensing
A 2024 worldwide finalist in the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, Robinson High School student, Mathew Ruggieri sheds light on this complex topic. “I was just fascinated with the concept of light, you know a massless particle, being influenced by the gravitational pull of objects in space, specifically how the gravity interacts with the spacetime grid and that’s what causes the light to bend.” (2 mins)
Directed by Mathew Ruggieri
The Urban Rescue Ranch
Just over four years ago, Ben Christie was a senior at Baylor University studying professional selling and had a job lined up at Oracle in Austin. Now, he runs The Urban Rescue Ranch, a farm sanctuary and wildlife rescue in Waco, Texas with dozens of wild animals ranging from kangaroos to emus to capybaras. Online, he creates half-comedic, half-educational videos featuring the different animals on the farm. He has amassed millions of followers and hundreds of millions of views across his TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram pages. He is continuing to grow both his following and rescue capabilities. (8 mins)
Directed by Mathew Ruggieri
Women In Aviation
Four Michigan female pilots tell the history of the courageous women that flew before them and reveal a bright future of possibilities for aspiring young girls in aviation. (10 min)
Directed by Keith Famie
