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Cookie Queens

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United States202691 minEnglish
Cookie Queens

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.

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It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.

Meet Ara, Olive, Nikki, and Shannon Elizabeth: four Girl Scouts with big personalities and big ambitions. The mission? Cookie sales. But their entrepreneurial spirit hints at bright futures ahead — think future Supreme Court justices, CEOs, and beyond.

Alysa Nahmias’ sparkling film follows the girls through a cookie-selling season, highlighting the girls’ charm and unsuspecting sharp business instincts. It isn’t just fun and games though. The girls and their families make real financial and time sacrifices to hit their goals, trading laid-back weekends for hours outside, wagons full of cookies in tow. Nahmias stays focused on the girls and their individual journeys, offering a sincere, playful window into a multimillion-dollar industry powered by their cookie booths. It’s a joyous, heartwarming, utterly sweet ride that cheers on the girls’ grit and ingenuity. — SO

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Family MatineeAll FeaturesBIPOC StoriesWomen-Centered StoriesNonfictionSuitable For All AgesAudio DescriptionClosed CaptionOpen CaptionU.S. Only- less

Credits

  • Director(s)

    Alysa Nahmias

  • Producers

    Michael Dweck

    Gregory Kershaw

    Alysa Nahmias

    Jennifer Sims

  • Edited By

    Kim Roberts, ACE

    Jeanne Applegate

  • Director of Photography

    Antonio Cisneros

  • Executive Producers

    Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

    Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

    Tegan Acton

    Hallee Adelman

    Trevor Burgess

    James Costa

    Geralyn Dreyfous

    Stephen G. Hall

    Ruth Ann Harnisch

    Melony Lewis

    Adam Lewis

    Ann Lewnes

    Ann Lovell

    Emma Pompetti

    Chanel Pysnik

    Regina K. Scully

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Alysa Nahmias

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Alysa Nahmias is the Emmy-winning director of Art & Krimes by Krimes and The New Bauhaus and co-director of Unfinished Spaces, which is in the collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her recent producing credits include Wildcat and Unrest. She is the founder of AJNA Films and co-founder of FWD-Doc.

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