Video · Angelina Jolie to Direct Adaptation of Cambodian Memoir

Cambodia helped Angelina Jolie become a film superstar and start a family.
To tell the stories of people in the country that touched her, she is directing a Netflix film on location based on a memoir of the country’s 1970s holocaust under the communist Khmer Rouge, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.
She’s slated to begin filming in November on the Netflix project, an adaptation of “First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.”
The memoir recalls Loung Ung’s childhood.
author Loung Ung’s memoir of her childhood during the resign of Pol Pot.