COOKIE QUEENS

2026 Sundance Film Festival

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to become  top-selling “Cookie Queens,” navigating an $800 million enterprise  where childhood, ambition, and competition collide.
 

Meet Ara, Olive, Nikki, and Shannon Elizabeth: four Girl Scouts with  compelling personalities and formidable drive. Their mission is cookie  sales, but their entrepreneurial instincts point toward futures that  stretch far beyond the cookie booth: future Supreme Court justices,  CEOs, and leaders yet to be imagined.
 

The idea for Cookie Queens was conceived by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, who brought the project to filmmaker Alysa Nahmias to direct. Serving as producers, Dweck and Kershaw sought to explore the social  shifts and pressures shaping the United States through an upbeat, entertaining, and deeply character-driven lens. As with all of their work, the film is grounded in intimate portraiture: these Girl Scouts emerge as dynamic, larger-than-life protagonists, defined by their  spirit, resilience, and determination, inspiring not only for what they  accomplish, but for who they are becoming. 

YEAR 2026
COUNTRY U.S.A.
CATEGORY Feature Documentary
RUN TIME 91 min
LANGUAGE English

Credits
Director: Alysa  Nahmias
Producers: Michael Dweck / Gregory Kershaw / Alysa Nahmias / Jennifer Sims
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.
Co-Producers: Ann Rogers / Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen
Editor: Kim Roberts, ACE / Jeanne Applegate