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. Cody’s 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. He graduated from New York University with a BFA in Film & TV and an MA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, earning an Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Work.
FILM
A Night at Switch n’ Play profiles the Brooklyn based drag and burlesque collective Switch n’ Play. Queer in every sense of the word, SNP spans the gender spectrum in life and on stage.
Further Accomplishments
2026
Five Years in 8mm – featured in the Voices with Impact World Premiere at the VIFF center in Vancouver, Canada June 3, 2026. This cohort includes 10 short films on the topic of mental health by filmmakers from across the world: The Philippines, USA, UK, Canada, and New Zealand.
A Texas Son – selected by Seed & Spark as part of their 2026 Staff Picks series. A Texas Son is a love letter from a transgender son to his father, charting a decade of mental health, identity, and masculinity, confronting the gender roles prescribed at birth and embracing the freedom of shedding them. Come join our family and help bring this project to life.