Who needs the Caribbean? Malia Obama goes to Sundance Film Festival after spending the weekend in Palm Springs with parents

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She may be in the middle of her gap year, but Malia Obama appeared to be on internship duty at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday.

After spending the weekend in Palm Springs with her family, Malia jetted off to Park City, Utah to catch screenings at one of the biggest film festivals.

Malia just landed an internship with producer Harvey Weinstein, who was also at the festival.   

The 18-year-old was first spotted having dinner in Park City on Sunday.  

Malia Obama was spotted at the Sundance Film Festival (pictured) over the weekend, just days after it was revealed she landed an internship with producer Harvey Weinstein 

Work and play: Malia (above on Tuesday) is at the Sundance Film Festival this week

Malia was pictured with a friend above on Tuesday. The pair smiled away despite the cold weather

Malia left for Park City, Utah (pictured left) after spending a weekend in Palm Springs with her parents and younger sister Sasha (pictured right also leaving)

She was then spotted at a screening for the film Beach Rats, a drama about a Brooklyn teen who begins exploring his sexuality with older men, on Tuesday. 

One source heard Malia tell a Sundance staffer 'it was interesting', but it remains unclear if she was talking about the film, according to The Wrap. 

Although she may no longer be a first daughter, Malia's presence at the festival definitely didn't go unnoticed. 

'You know it's going to be a good screening when Malia Obama comes in,' wrote Hannah Hembree on Twitter Monday.

Talent manager Scott Fisher first spotted the teen eating out on Sunday night.

'The only celeb spotting at Sundance that matters to me: Malia Obama having dinner a few tables down,' he tweeted. 'Weinstein internship paying off.' 

Director and writer Brett Wagner snuck a photo of Malia that he posted on Instagram with the caption: 'Best Sundance sighting ever'. 

The photo shows Malia, dressed in a brown jacket, looking down at her friend's phone screen.  

Malia skipped out on her parents Caribbean vacation for Park City, Utah. Barack and Michelle arrived in the British Virgin Islands on Monday after flying in on Sir Richard Branson's jet

Weinstein was not seen at the Beach Rats screening.

Before she made her way to Sundance, Malia spent the weekend with her parents and younger sister Sasha in Palm Springs. 

The former First Family jetted off to California after Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday afternoon, where they stayed at the mansion of Obama's Ambassador to Spain and his husband. 

On Sunday Malia took off for Utah, Sasha took off presumably for DC, where she ws back to school Monday, and their parents boarded Richard Branson's private jet Monday for a flight to the Caribbean island of Tortola and a boat to the billionaire's private island Necker.  

It remains unknown how long Malia's internship with Weinstein will last, but she is planning to attend Harvard University in the fall. 

Malia deferred her enrollment for a year, spending three months on a secret trip through South America. 

The trip coincided with the final weeks of the election, and Malia was reportedly out for pizza in the town of Tiquipaya the night that Donald Trump clinched the presidency. 

After seeing a new side of the globe, Malia is clearly ready to learn more about a different world - that of film and television.

Malia was first spotted at a screening for the film Beach Rats (pictured), a drama about a Brooklyn teen who begins exploring his sexuality with older men

Weinstein (pictured with actor Jeremy Renner at Sundance on Saturday) was not seen at the Beach Rats screening

But this isn't Malia's first dive into Hollywood. 

The former first daughter worked on the set of Lena Dunham's HBO series Girls in 2015 as well as a production assistant on Halle Berry's CBS show Extant.  

And Malia is sure to learn plenty from Weinstein, who is behind Academy Award winners like Shakespeare in Love and The King's Speech, among plenty of others.  

The Obama's are friendly with Weinstein and his wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman.

Weinstein and Chapman have hosted multiple fundraisers for Obama and the Democratic party.

The former president once thanked the couple for 'their friendship and support, and for the amazing movies they've made'.  

Malia is currently enjoying her gap year after deferring her enrollment to Harvard. She spent three months on a secret trip through South America (pictured with a friend)