At one point in Cookie Queens, a highly engaging documentary about four Girl Scouts selling cookies, the film’s smallest moppet, five-year-old Ara E., meets a prospective client who — given his diabetes — wonders if he should be buying cookies at all. Ara, who has type-1 diabetes herself, empathizes enthusiastically and later bakes some sugar-free treats for the two of them. (Although she still charges the customer, having clearly learned the capitalist lesson of the cookie-charitable-industrial complex.) It’s an adorable moment, but one that might just draw attention to the fact that if this film were itself a baked good, Ara would need to be careful because one bite could cause hyperglycemia or even diabetic ketoacidosis. It’s just that sweet.
Not that viewers are likely to complain, judging by the reportedly long ovation that greeted the film after its first Sundance screening. Directed by Alysa Nahmias (who won an…