[5][6] She is a mother of two boys and was pregnant with her second son while writing the screen play for Nothing like the Holidays, which she eventually sold to Overture Films.
[6] Similarly to many other children born in Bermuda who came from money, Swan attend an off-island boarding school on the east coast in her teens.
[2] While attending NYU Swan was awarded the Spike Lee fellowship for her work in four narrative shorts.
Following her graduation she attempted to obtain funding for what would have been her first feature-length film, but after the financing fell through she began working for producer Robert Stigwood.
Following her failed attempt to receive funding for her first feature-length film she returned to Bermuda to make a documentary short.