Angelina Jolie
| Angelina Jolie | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Angelina Jolie Pitt |
| Roles | Filmmaker |
| Active | since 2007 as a director |
| Recognition | Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award, Hollywood Film Awards, 2017, and Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review, 2017, for First They Killed My Father; Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, 2017, and BAFTA nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language, 2018 (Wikipedia) |
| Subjects | Film & Moving Image; History & Remembrance; Family & Intergenerational Life |
Angelina Jolie is a filmmaker and actor who directed the Khmer-language feature First They Killed My Father.
Angelina Jolie is an actor and filmmaker who has directed feature films since 2007, including In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) (Wikipedia). She directed, co-wrote and produced First They Killed My Father, a Khmer-language adaptation of Loung Ung's memoir financed by Netflix, which was shot in Cambodia over about 50 days from November 2015 and released in 2017 (Wikipedia; Screen Daily). The film premiered outdoors at the Angkor Wat complex and was selected as Cambodia's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017 (Screen Daily; Wikipedia).