Malia Obama’s Next Directing Project Revealed 

Malia Obama is checking off more milestones on her résumé.

The eldest daughter of former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama has once again stepped behind the camera—this time, as the director of basketball star A’ja Wilson’s latest Nike commercial.

Alongside a photo of the two on-set reposted to A’ja’s Instagram Story May 4, the photo’s caption noted, “Vignette directed by Malia Obama.” In the commercial, which is for the WNBA star’s new A’One sneaker, A’ja and a young actress sing a cute nursery rhyme about being at the top of her game.

Malia’s latest credit comes more than a year after the 26-year-old made her directorial debut with her short film The Heart. The project, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, centered around a grieving son whose mom left him with an unusual request in her will.

“The film is about lost objects and lonely people and forgiveness and regret,” she shared in a YouTube video last January, “but I also think it works hard to uncover where tenderness and closeness can exist in these things.”