Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and director Alysa Nahmias spoke at a Los Angeles screening of their documentary "Cookie Queens", describing it as far more than a film about Girl Scout cookie sales. The documentary, which follows four young Girl Scouts through a cookie-selling season, previously won an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and Markle and Prince Harry subsequently joined as executive producers through their Archewell Productions company, lending the project a higher profile ahead of its wider release.

The advance screening took place at AMC The Grove, with an audience that included Girl Scouts in uniform following the stories of four girls named Olive, Shannon, Ara and Nikki. Speaking afterwards alongside moderator Jessica Radloff, Nahmias explained the film grew from a personal challenge by her children to make something suitable for all ages, and that she interviewed dozens of Girl Scouts before selecting four families whose experiences went beyond cookie sales to explore themes of girlhood and capitalism. Markle said Archewell's team was drawn to an early teaser that felt "cinematic but also real and vulnerable", and praised the finished film as an emotionally resonant coming-of-age story rather than simply "a cute film about cookies".