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.
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.
