Malia Obama Developing Short Film at Donald Glover’s Company; He Told Her: ‘If You Make a Bad Film, It Will Follow You Around’

Malia Obama is staying in the Donald Glover business. As part of a new GQ cover story on the Atlanta creator, Glover revealed that his newly-created production company, Gilga, is developing a short film with Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama. GQ confirmed Malia is creating the short film. Its unconfirmed at this time if Malia will direct the project.

Malia already has experience working with Glover as part of the writers room of his buzzy Amazon Prime Video series Swarm, which debuted March 17 on the streaming platform. Malia had a writing credit on the shows fifth episode, Girl Bye, alongside series co-creator Janine Nabers.

As part of the GQ cover, Glover reflected on how he is mentoring Malia in the entertainment world. The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once, Glover said.Youre Obamas daughter.So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around.

Fam Udeorji, Glovers longtime collaborator and his creative partner at Gilga, added, Understanding somebody like Malias cachet means something. But we really wanted to make sure she could make what she wantedeven if it was a slow processIts more about diversity of thought than just, like, diversity for optics. You know what I mean?

Plot details about Malia Obamas new short film are remaining under wraps.

Swarm was one of the first projects Glover developed at Gilga. He told GQ of the production companys purpose: Rich kids dont do shit for money. They do things based on if its gonna make them happy. Like, thats really what I realized this last go-around. I made a lot of money, and it wasnt that I was depressed or anything like that, but I realized its the people I was around that mattered. Its the food I was able to eat. Its the processes I was a part of that made me happy. People dont get quality anymore and they need a filter. Gilga is a perfect filter for that shit.

The first season of Swarm is streaming in its entirety on Prime Video.