2026 Sarasota Film Festival
Cookie Queens
Screenings
- 📅
Sunday, April 19 at 2:00 PM EDT
Ends 4:00 PM EDT
📍Ringling College / Morganroth Auditorium
2363 Bradenton Road, Sarasota, FL, 34234
About This Screening
Director in attendance for Q&A
About this film
Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and pain points woven into one of America’s most cherished rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season. Captivating, candid, and full of heart, the film follows four girls ages 5-12 as they navigate the annual whirlwind of selling, striving, and succeeding. For these Girl Scouts, selling cookies isn’t just about Thin Mints and sisterhood - it’s a crash course in commercialism. Behind the smiles lie real pressure: long hours, ambitious goals, and weighty expectations. With humor, warmth, and a keen eye for small moments revealing big truths, Cookie Queens shows how growing up is shaped by tensions between community and capitalism.
Audience Award, South by Southwest Film Festival
In Attendance: Producer Jennifer Sims
Credits
- Director
- Alysa Nahmias
- Producer
- Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Alysa Nahmias, Jennifer Sims
- Executive Producer
- Regina K. Scully, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Hallee Adelman, Ann Lewnes, Ruth Ann Harnisch, Stephen G. Hall, Trevor Burgess, James Costa, Emma Pompetti, Tegan Acton, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- Co-Producer
- Ann Rogers
- Screenwriter
- Alysa Nahmias
- Cinematographer
- Antonio Cisneros
- Editor
- Jeanne Applegate, Kim Roberts
