{"id":161560,"date":"2026-03-12T17:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161560\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:37:39","slug":"sundance-coming-of-age-doc-cookie-queens-lands-us-deal-ahead-of-sxsw-premiere-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161560\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance coming-of-age doc \u2018Cookie Queens\u2019 lands US deal ahead of SXSW premiere | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cookie Queens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1474469_filmstillcourtesyroadsideattractions_656222_crop.png\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Roadside Attractions has acquired all US rights to Alysa Nahmias\u2019s Sundance coming-of-age film Cookie Queens ahead of its\u00a0Texas premiere at SXSW on Friday (March 13).<\/p>\n<p>The comedy documentary\u00a0follows four tenacious Girl Scouts as they navigate the annual US ritual of Girl Scout Cookie season and vie to become the top-selling \u2018Cookie Queen\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw of Beautiful Stories served as producers alongside Nahmias for Ajna Films, and Jennifer Sims.<\/p>\n<p>The Beautiful Stories &amp; Ajna Films Production was made in association with Archewell Productions, Artemis Rising Foundation, and Good Gravy Films.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle\u00a0and Prince Harry are among the executive producers.\u00a0\u201cAs a former Girl Scout myself, with my mom as my troop leader, I have a personal affinity for this film and am proud that Archewell Productions has partnered with this award-winning team to executive produce this incredibly captivating film,\u201d the\u00a0Duchess of Sussex\u00a0said, adding that the film was \u201cabsolutely irresistible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roadside Attractions plans an exclusive theatrical release this summer after negotiating the deal with Submarine and WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roadside Attractions has acquired all US rights to Alysa Nahmias\u2019s Sundance coming-of-age film Cookie Queens ahead of its\u00a0Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-161560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}