This Article is From Jul 24, 2015

Angelina Jolie to Direct First They Killed My Father

Angelina Jolie to Direct First They Killed My Father

Angelina Jolie photographed at an event in California. (image courtesy: AFP)

Los Angeles: Actress-director Angelina Jolie is teaming with online streaming service Netflix to direct the film First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, reports variety.com.

The film is based on a memoir from Cambodian author and human-rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime.

Angelina will direct and produce the project from a script she co-adapted with her. Cambodian director and producer Rithy Panh, maker of the Oscar-nominated foreign-language film The Missing Picture, will also be a co-producer.

The film will be made available to members of the streaming service in late 2016 and will be submitted to major international festivals.

Loung Ung was five-years-old when the Khmer Rouge regime assumed power over Cambodia in 1975 and began a four-year reign of terror and genocide in which nearly two million Cambodians died.

Forced away from her family's home in Phnom Penh, Loung Ung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans while her six siblings were sent to labour camps. She survived and wrote First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which was published in 2000.
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