Growing up in front of the eyes of the public isn’t something Malia Obama is not familiar with. Being the daughter of the former president of the United States, Barak Obama, she has spent her life under the limelight, and even today, the media is interested in her every move.
The 25-year-old just presented her directorial debut, The Heart, at the Sundance Film Festival. In the Sundance Institute’s “Meet the Artist” spotlight video, Malia Obama revealed she was going by the name Malia Ann, thus ditching her moniker.
Malia, who was born Malia Ann Obama on July 4, 1998, has her middle name honoring her paternal grandmother, who died from ovarian cancer at the age of 52 in 1995, and now, she has dropped her last name in favor of her middle name.
Speaking of the short film for which she served as both director and screenwriter, Malia said. “This is an odd little story, somewhat of fable, about a man grieving the death of his mother after she leaves him an unusual request in her will.” Further, in the YouTube clip of the short film, she wrote, “The film is about lost objects and lonely people and forgiveness and regret, but I also think it works hard to uncover where tenderness and closeness can exist in these things.”
The Heat isn’t her first attempt into the profession. Previously, the Harvard grad worked in the writers’ room on Donald’s Amazon Prime show Swarm, co-writing the fifth episode, “Girl, Bye.”
“She’s a very professional person,” Swarm‘s co-creator Janine Nabers said Malia in a January 2023 Vanity Fair interview. “She’s an incredible writer and artist. She made significant contributions… She’s very, truly committed to her craft.”
Swarm‘s executive producer Stephen Glover also spoke of Malia. “We can’t be easy on her just because she’s the [former] President’s daughter,” he told Vanity Fair. “No, she is really down-to-earth and cool. So it’s not an issue at all.”
Malia Obama isn’t the first celebrity who made the decision to ditch their family name. Other celebs have done that before, including Nicolas Cage, who changed his last name from Coppola, and Angelina Jolie, who dropped her surname, Voight.
For her directorial debut, Malia looked cozy, with minimal makeup, her curly hair down with small braids scattered throughout.
Bomb discovery! He accidentally found a car at the bottom of the river and called the police
Twelve years ago, Ilya Zhirnov and Kira Cherkasova, two young women, ages twenty-five and twenty-two, respectively, disappeared from the city of Cheboksary in central Russia. Nobody knew what had happened to them until the amateur diver found their car at the bottom of the river.
The car had been underwater for almost a decade, according to the authorities.
Identity documents that survived the underwater submersion were used by the authorities to identify the two persons who went missing. Inside the car, the diver discovered two bodies along with the belongings of the young people.
This is a devastating finding, but it may offer new information about the case.
The first theory put up by the police states that nobody saw or reported the couple’s accident to the authorities after they lost control of their automobile on the slippery road and ended up in the river.
However, many are interested in learning how long it will take the authorities to determine with certainty what happened to the two individuals. Will an investigation into this matter be launched?
Is there any chance that this finding may lead to the finding of more clues or evidence that will clarify what happened twelve years ago?
It’s uncertain what more research will reveal for the time being.
It’s uncertain what more research will reveal for the time being.
However, the amateur diver’s discovery indicates that we shouldn’t give up trying to solve our problems. It can be a significant development for individuals searching for information in cases of missing persons or unsolved murders.
Ultimately, this discovery should prompt us to consider the individuals who are still missing and act as a reminder that sometimes the answers are right in front of us.
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