Cookie Queens
This charming SXSW Film & TV Festival Audience Award-winning documentary profiles four resolute girls through Girl Scout Cookie season as they find their place in the $800 million phenomenon.
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Saturday, May 16, 2026
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Sunday, May 17, 2026
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Girl Scouts across the United States take on the $800 million endeavor to always be closing on cookie sales in just six weeks every year. Follow four plucky Girl Scouts (Nikki, Ara, Olive, and Shannon Elizabeth) as they doggedly pursue their dreams to become Cookie Queens. The girls use many tactics, from writing viral songs about cookies to threatening potential buyers with karate, as they prepare themselves to be future leaders of America. Their goals are as diverse as the girls themselves; some want to pay for a trip to Europe, others want to pay for summer camp. One wants to be a Supreme Court Justice. This SXSW Film & TV Festival Audience Award-winning documentary masterfully captures the tension between young girls achieving their goals and the stress that permeates this sisterhood of sales, as some parents worry about selling a mortgage payment worth of cookies in less than two months. This effervescent celebration of girlhood and goals is the perfect family-friendly documentary that will make you laugh, cry, and ask if it is, in fact, better than Cats.
—Megan Garbayo-Lopez
- Director: Alysa Nahmias
- Principal Cast: Nikki B., Olive G., Shannon Elizabeth S., Ara E.
- Country: USA
- Year: 2026
- Running Time: 91 min.
- Producer: Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck, Alysa Nahmias, Jennifer Sims
- Screenplay: Alysa Nahmias
- Cinematographers: Antonio Cisneros
- Editors: Kim Roberts, Jeanne Applegate, Fatima de los Santos
- Music: Amanda Jones
- Website: Official Film Website
- Awards: SXSW Film & TV Festival 2026 (Audience Award for Festival Favorite)
- Filmography: Art & Krimes by Krimes (2021), The New Bauhaus (2019), Unfinished Spaces (co-director, 2011)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Roadside Attractions
- International Sales: Submarine