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Cookie Queens Exposes the Sweet Underbelly of Girl Scout Season
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Cookie Queens Exposes the Sweet Underbelly of Girl Scout Season

IndieWire's Sundance review of Cookie Queens follows four diverse Girl Scouts during cookie season, using slick visuals and a jaunty score to reveal how the six-week sale doubles as a capitalist machine, spotlighting family support, money pressures, and the girls’ negotiation of their own identities and ambitions, with Olive at the center as she questions the price of being the top seller.

Meghan and Harry Back Girl-Scout Doc at Sundance
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Meghan and Harry Back Girl-Scout Doc at Sundance

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attended Sundance to executive‑produce and promote Cookie Queens, Alysa Nahmias’s documentary about four Girl Scouts selling cookies. Meghan introduced the film at the Eccles Theatre, calling it a powerful, multilayered look at girlhood, family, and leadership, as Archewell Productions backs more projects like it.

Meghan & Harry-Produced Cookie Queens Garners Standing Ovation at Sundance
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Meghan & Harry-Produced Cookie Queens Garners Standing Ovation at Sundance

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry executive produced the Alysa Nahmias–directed documentary Cookie Queens, which follows four Girl Scouts pursuing cookie-sales goals; the Sundance premiere drew one of the festival’s longer standing ovations (about two minutes) as audiences connected with the girls’ stories and a moment highlighting calls for changes in the Girl Scouts’ project-approval timeline. The film is being sold by WME Independent and Submarine.

Royal Duo Drops Surprise Sundance Appearance at Cookie Queens Premiere
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Royal Duo Drops Surprise Sundance Appearance at Cookie Queens Premiere

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a surprise appearance at the Sundance premiere of Cookie Queens, a 91‑minute documentary executive produced by the couple about Girl Scout cookie season. They posed with Amy Redford, Eugene Hernandez, and Alysa Nahmias; the screening reportedly wasn’t publicized beforehand. The film follows four girls vying to be top sellers, while Harry’s ongoing UK court case with a Daily Mail publisher adds contemporary context to the royal visit.

Royals Surprise Sundance Crowd with Cookie Queens Screening
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Royals Surprise Sundance Crowd with Cookie Queens Screening

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry attended the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City for the world premiere of Cookie Queens, a 91-minute documentary directed by Alysa Nahmias about four girls competing to be top Cookie Queen; the royal couple are executive producers on the film and joined director Nahmias, Amy Redford and others at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center for a surprise screening.