Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon is a documentary about Sonia Manzano, the first Latina in a regular role on American TV and beloved as Maria from Sesame Street for 44 years. The Miami Film Festival will present Manzano with its Impact Award at the screening. Directed by Ernie Bustamante.
Cookie Queens is a documentary following four Girl Scouts ages 5 to 12 through the pressures and joys of cookie selling season. Directed by Alysa Nahmias, the film examines the tension between community, ambition, and capitalism through the lens of an $800 million American tradition.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World is a documentary portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, featuring poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey. The screening is followed by a conversation with director Sasha Waters.