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Check out Voices With Impact’s new Substack, “Transatlantic Trans Joy: It's not the places, it's their stories,” featuring Cody!! Read the full piece at voiceswithimpact.substack.com.
Cody Stickels is a filmmaker who crafts heartfelt, character-driven stories that celebrate comfort, humor, and resilience. He is a 2025-2026 Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab cohort member and was selected for the 2024 Film Independent Documentary Story Lab.
His last film won the audience award for Best Documentary at New York City’s NewFest Film Festival and screened internationally at BFI Flare, Inside Out, and Woodstock. Stickels is an MFA candidate with SouthDocs at the University of Mississippi.
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Congrats, Cody!! 🎉 Cody received the Lucille and Motee Daniels Award for the best graduate student paper for his film “Under the Ink,” completed for Professor Shiraz Ahmed’s SST 633 class.
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Congrats, Ashish!! 🎉 Ashish was awarded the Sarah Dixon Pegues Award for a strong paper in the study of music for his project “Griot of the South: John Mohead” completed for Professor John Rash’s SST 633 class.
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Congrats, Sela! 🎉 Sela received the Outstanding MFA Award for the best MFA thesis for “Open for Victims, Sorry We’re Dead” completed under the direction of Professor Shiraz Ahmed.
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BIG thank you to everyone for coming out to support our students at the Mississippi Creates event!!
Mississippi Creates is a collaborative project between the Southern Documentary Project, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Mississippi, and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council.
Learn more about MS Creates at southdocs.org.
📸 : @olivia.erin.whittington
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Thank you to everyone who came out to support and celebrate our students and their incredible work!!
Missed the showcase? Want to see the work again? You can! Follow the link in our bio.
📸 : @olivia.erin.whittington
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TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!!!! 🤩 🤗 📸 📽 🎤 See you tonight at the Documentary Showcase!!!!
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📢 🎉 Congratulations to Sela Ricketts for successfully defending her MFA Thesis, “Open for Victims, Sorry We’re Dead.”
Sela is pictured here with her thesis committee, from left to right: Dr. Andy Harper, Shiraz Ahmed (Thesis Chair), and Annemarie Anderson.
📸: Andrew Bryant
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Next Monday, Prof. Angela Tucker’s students will screen films they made about Mississippi artists. Mississippi Creates is a community partnership with the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. We hope to see you there!!
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