Latest in First They Killed My Father

Seeing her latest directorial outing, First They Killed My Father, selected as the Cambodian entry this year for Best Foreign Language Film, humanitarian and Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has also been making the rounds of late in support of The Breadwinner, Nora Twomey's Oscar-nominated animated feature, which…

The American Society of Cinematographers will present Angelina Jolie with the group’s 2018 ASC Board of Governors Award at the 32nd annual ASC Awards, set for February 17 at Hollywood & Highland's Ray Dolby Ballroom. Her fourth film as director, Netflix’s First They Killed My Father, is Cambodia’s Oscar entry and has…

Angelina Jolie has scored her second nomination in the Golden Globes’ Best Foreign Language Film category with Cambodia's First They Killed My Father. The Netflix drama is also the representative from Cambodia for the Foreign Language Oscar, whose shortlist comes out at the end of this week. Jolie's 2011 Bosnian…

Angelina Jolie’s fourth directorial effort, First They Killed My Father, has the unique distinction of being Cambodia’s entry into the Academy’s Foreign Language Film competition this year, giving Jolie — who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Cambodia — an unusual position in this year’s race. Jolie and her…

The Best Foreign Language Film race has again set a new record, with entries this year hailing from 92 countries. Amongst the contenders are a host of high-profile helmers—and one Netflix-backed picture directed by a bonafide global celebrity. The Phase One and Executive Committees can be unpredictable. Last year's…

Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father is a feature long in the making. The catalyst for the film can be traced back to when Jolie was in Cambodia in her 20s. She purchased Loung Ung’s book from a street corner, and it was a humbling learning experience for the Oscar-winning actress. "I didn't realize how much…

UPDATE, writethru after Sunday 11:01 PM exclusive: Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father has been set as the Cambodian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Deadline reported late Sunday night that confirmation of the selection was imminent, and early Monday morning the Cambodia Oscar Selection…

The ambitious and highly praised Cambodian film First They Killed My Father, which director Angelina Jolie has been debuting on the fall festival circuit — first at Telluride and just this week at the Toronto Film Festival —  is set to debut on Netflix this Friday as well as in several art house theaters. It is a…

Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers will open theatrically on Friday, Sept. 15 in the Top 10 film markets the same day that it launches globally on Netflix. This news comes as the picture is readying to screen tonight in Toronto.< First They Killed My Father, directed by…

Some actors segue to directing to make their show business careers more well-rounded, but for Angelina Jolie, “It was an accident — I wanted to learn more about the War in Yugoslavia” said the Oscar winner referring to her 2011 feature directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey. The actress was present tonight…

Angelina Jolie told me she’s having a great time at her first Telluride Film Festival, where since the debut here Saturday of First They Killed My Father, her fourth directorial effort has been winning strong praise. The powerful, beautifully shot film, set during the 1970s when Pol Pot’s deadly Khmer Rouge regime…

UPDATE, 4:20 PM: Vanity Fair said that it is standing by contributing editor Evgenia Peretz’s cover story last week on Angelina Jolie,  a story Jolie says unfairly depicted the casting process for her new Netflix film First They Killed My Father as potentially cruel to children. The magazine, which published the story…