Cookie Queens
Four young Girl Scouts race to sell as many cookies as possible over the course of a season in this charming and warm-hearted crowd pleaser.
Recommended for ages 7 and up.
Description
Ara, Shannon Elizabeth, Nikki, and Olive live by the mantra, “Sell! Sell! Sell!” Each Girl Scout in this diverse group has her own sales goal to reach or maybe even surpass during the short cookie-selling season. The race to become the Cookie Queen is not for the faint of the heart with a surprising amount of money and rewards like summer camp and European trips on the line. In between lugging wagons piled high with boxes across town and weekends spent manning cookie booths, the girls find themselves pulled between their ambition to succeed and the desire to just be a kid and play. This adorable coming-of-age story—a Sundance hit—follows the highs and lows of a single season, illuminating both the pressures of entrepreneurship at such a young age, and the empowerment of nurturing their aspirations. —Amber Love
Note: The April 30 screening will be presented with Open Captions.
Biographies
Alysa Nahmias is the director and producer of the documentaries Cookie Queens (2026); Art & Krimes by Krimes (2021), winner of a News & Documentary Emmy Award; The New Bauhaus (2019); and Unfinished Spaces (2011), winner of the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ FIND Your Audience Award. She is a founder of AJNA Films, a Los Angeles production company and a co-founder of FWD-Doc, an organization that supports disabled filmmakers.
