Following Malia Obama’s short film debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the budding filmmaker is accused of lifting heavy inspiration from a fellow director. Natalie Jasmine Harris, whose short ...

An independent filmmaker is accusing former first daughter Malia Obama of cinematically plagiarizing her work in a recent Nike commercial. Director Natalie Jasmine Harris claimed Obama ripped off a ...

That was Michelle Obama’s pointed response when asked how she felt about her daughter Malia choosing to drop her last name ...

Natalie Jasmine Harris claimed that the commercial's scenes, particularly one featuring two young Black girls playing ...

Malia Obama is being accused of copying an indie filmmaker’s work for her Nike commercial released earlier this month — the first ad the former president’s daughter has directed. Natalie ...

Harris said that her frustration isn't with Obama personally, but rather at the broader film industry which failed to protect her work from being copied by someone else.

Malia Obama and Nike were accused by filmmaker Natalie Jasmine Harris Monday of taking uncredited inspiration from her short film “Grace” for the sports brand’s new Obama-directed campaign ...

See the latest promotional video for former South Carolina women's basketball star A'ja Wilson's new Nike shoes, directed by ...

Natalie Jasmine Harris noted “similarities” between her short film “GRACE” and the former first daughter’s recent Nike ...

Harris was stunned to see how many similarities there were between her short film and Malia’s Nike ad, so she had a friend “put together a shot-by-shot photo comparison.” It isn’t ...

Watch on Deadline Deadline has reached out to reps for Obama and Nike for comment. Directed by Obama, Teaching the Pro is based on creative direction by Jenn Nkiru, who directed the campaign’s ...