Cookie Queens

Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age documentary about one of America’s most beloved annual rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season. Behind the Thin Mints and the badges lies an $800 million business, and director Alysa Nahmias places four girls, ages 5 to 12, at the center of it.

The film follows the girls and their families through the annual selling season with candor and warmth, capturing the real pressures underneath the smiles: long hours, ambitious sales goals, and the weight of high expectations. For these girls, selling cookies is less about sisterhood and more about a first encounter with commercialism, competition, and what it means to succeed. Nahmias balances the humor and heart of childhood with an honest look at what America asks of its youngest participants.