Cookie Queens: Free Film Screening @ Libbey Bowl
About this Event
COOKIE QUEENS | FRIDAY, JULY 17 | DOORS 6:30
SPECIAL GUESTS: Q+A with … ALSYA NAHMIAS, Director and Producer, Girl Scouts NIKKI and ARA!
2026 | Run Time: 1 hr 31 min | DOCUMENTARY
Directed by: Alysa Nahmias
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.
Meet Ara, Olive, Nikki, and Shannon Elizabeth: four Girl Scouts with big personalities and big ambitions. The mission? Cookie sales. But their entrepreneurial spirit hints at bright futures ahead — think future Supreme Court justices, CEOs, and beyond.
Premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, Alysa Nahmias’ sparkling film follows the girls through a cookie-selling season, highlighting the girls’ charm and unsuspecting sharp business instincts. It isn’t just fun and games though. The girls and their families make real financial and time sacrifices to hit their goals, trading laid-back weekends for hours outside, wagons full of cookies in tow. Nahmias stays focused on the girls and their individual journeys, offering a sincere, playful window into a multimillion-dollar industry powered by their cookie booths. It’s a joyous, heartwarming, utterly sweet ride that cheers on the girls’ grit and ingenuity.
“... one of those terrific works of non-fiction that explores a microcosm only to uncover far broader social and political factors that emerge from what otherwise would appear to be a minor cultural event.” – Jason Gorber, POV Magazine
“... an eminently accessible and easily meme-able serving of American-girl cuteness.” – Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“... films like Cookie Queens remind audiences that girlhood, in all its complexity, deserves to be documented.” –Caitlyn Homolya, Salt Lake Magazine
SPECIAL GUEST: ALYSA NAHMIAS
Director and Producer, Cookie Queens
AJNA founder Alysa Nahmias is the director and producer of the feature documentaries Cookie Queens; Art & Krimes by Krimes; Unfinished Spaces; and The New Bauhaus. She also produced the Emmy-winning Amazon Studios release Wildcat directed by Melissa Lesh & Trevor Beck Frost; the Sundance Jury Award-winning Unrest directed by Jennifer Brea; the scripted feature No Light and No Land Anywhere by writer/director Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July; and the documentaries What We Left Unfinished directed by Mariam Ghani and Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq by director/producer Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and Berlinale. As an executive producer Alysa’s recent films include Michael Premo’s Homegrown and Reid Davenport’s I Didn’t See You There.
As a co-founder of, Alysa is an advocate for disabled people in the entertainment industry and beyond, and she is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, the Television Academy, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
THE DETAILS
- This event is FREE to attend. You can check-in at any entrance to the Bowl.
- Doors open at 6:30PM
- Plan to arrive early. Pack snacks, bring layers and a blanket (especially if you want to sit on the grass!)
- Libbey Bowl has eleven wheelchair accessible seats. To learn more, visit ojai.ca.gov/CivicAlerts
- We encourage walking, biking, and carpooling. Bike racks are available onsite.
- If driving, street parking is available. Please follow local street signs.
- Forgot to RSVP? No problem, come and check-in with our team when you get there.
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2026 SUMMER SERIES: WILD IS THE NIGHT…
Join us weekly through July and the second half of August for FREE at Libbey Bowl.
- Thursday, July 2 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Firday, July 10 | Selena y Los Dinos
- Firday, July 17 | Cookie Queens
- Firday, July 24 | Best in Show
- Thursday, August 20 | Arrival
- Thursday, August 27 | Jurassic Park
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Founded in 1988, the mission of the Ojai Film Society (OFS) is to present quality independent, foreign, documentary, and classic films to the Ojai Valley, outdoors, in community for FREE. We are a 501c3 non-profit that proudly reaches over 3,000+ attendees annually through our FREE Summer Series at Libbey Bowl, making us one of the largest free event series in the Valley. Learn more at ojaifilmsociety.org.
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