Free People is hosting Feels Like Free People: A Summer Social on Saturday, July 11, at Marine Parade Grounds in Navy Yard Park — a free outdoor community event built around food trucks, lawn games, and a DJ set, closing with a screening of an award-winning documentary weeks ahead of its theatrical release. Rain date is Sunday, July 12.

What’s Happening at Feels Like Free People

Feels Like Free People runs 5 to 9 pm, free to attend and explore — food trucks, lawn games, photo moments, and giveaways, all set against Navy Yard Park’s waterfront backdrop. Only the film screening requires a ticket: $5 for adults, free for children 15 and under, with the screening itself starting at 7:15 pm. Parking is available at 1 Crescent Drive. Tickets and full details are at Free People’s event page.

Cookie Queens: An Award-Winning Documentary, Ahead of Its August Release

The centerpiece of Feels Like Free People is a screening of Cookie Queens, directed by Alysa Nahmias, ahead of its theatrical debut on August 7. The documentary follows four determined girls competing to become their troop’s top seller during Girl Scout Cookie season — a genuinely fun premise that also opens into something bigger: the film digs into the roughly $800 million business built around those cookie boxes, and what ambition looks like when it shows up that young.

Cookie Queens has picked up multiple festival Official Selection laurels along the way, including a Festival Favorite Audience Award, and is produced by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Alysa Nahmias, and Jennifer Sims through Beautiful Stories and AJNA Films, in association with Archewell Productions, Good Gravy Films, and Artemis Rising Foundation.

The screening ties directly back to Free People’s own investment in the film: Cookie Queens was partially funded through the Free People Creative Spirit Fund, which this year partnered with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program to award $25,000 grants to five women documentary filmmakers for works in progress. Nahmias was one of the five recipients — meaning the Navy Yard crowd gets a genuine look at a Sundance-connected film before most audiences do.

Feels Like Free People: free food trucks and lawn games would be reason enough for a Saturday evening at the Navy Yard. A pre-release screening of an award-winning documentary makes it a genuinely good one.

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