Let’s take a look into her impressive filmmaking career so far.

What does Malia Obama do for a living?

Malia Obama is a writer and director.

Last year it was announced that Obama was working as a staff writer for the Amazon Prime TV series Swarm, which came out in March last year. She worked with Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, who chatted about her to Vanity Fair in 2022. “She’s just like, an amazingly talented person. She’s really focused, and she’s working really hard,” he gushed, “I feel like she’s just somebody who’s gonna have really good things coming soon. Her writing style is great.”

Per Harvard’s website, Obama majored in visual and environmental studies at the prestigious school, which may have further fuelled her interest in filmmaking.

What is Malia Obama’s first film about?

According to IMDB, Obama’s directorial debut short The Heart is described as follows: “An unexpected request and a terrible loss bring attention to the intense and complex relationship between a mother and her son”.

In her Meet the Artist video for Sundance, the budding filmmaker explained: “The film is about lost objects and lonely people and forgiveness and regret,” before adding that it also “works hard to uncover where tenderness and closeness can exist in these things.”

“We hope that you enjoy the film and that it makes you feel a bit less lonely or at least reminds you not to forget about the people who are,” Obama said on behalf of her filmmaking team, per ABC News.

Where else has Malia Obama worked?

It seems Obama has known for years that she wanted to work in the entertainment industry. As reported by Yahoo! Entertainment, she started out by working as a production assistant on Halle Berry’s CBS sci-fi series, Extant, when she was 15 in 2014, then spent a summer interning for HBO’s Girls after she turned 17.

Which films have her parents produced?

It’s not just Malia who has expressed an interest in the film biz – her famous parents have also dabbled in a handful of projects.

Does Malia Obama have any other famous relatives?

Barack famously declared himself “the son of a Black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas”. Per Oprah Daily, his father Barack Obama Sr was a successful Kenyan economist, and his mother Ann Dunham was a high-achieving American anthropologist.

But perhaps one of the biggest surprises to emerge from the family’s time in the White House spotlight came when it was revealed by the New England Historic Genealogical Society that the Obamas’ family tree extends to include George W. Bush.

However, the same article said that while these familial links are interesting, instances of people like Obama and Bush being related are genetically meaningless due to the fact that they are so far removed they barely have any genetic connection by this point.