Documentary about the subculture of child beauty pageants (usually restricted to girls no older than 5), showing the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure that their children win these pageants...
Direction
Cookson lets the horror speak for itself, no narration needed.
Production
Raw handheld intimacy that feels accidentally criminal.
Director
Shari Cookson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates Toddlers & Tiaras by nearly a decade and lacks its campy editing—making it infinitely more disturbing.
Director Shari Cookson won an Emmy for The Lost Children of Rockdale County; she specializes in documentaries about childhood trauma that polite society ignores.
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