Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie has been in scouting locations in Cambodia for her next film, “First They Killed My Father,” which she is casting entirely with local talent.

In a statement to The Associated Press, Jolie said she has spent the last week doing research and pre-production on the film before beginning shooting in Cambodia in November. She said she’s striving, through meetings with Cambodians, to ensure the movie about the deadly Khmer Rouge regime is “accurate and faithful” to the 1970s events. Jolie is collaborating with Cambodian author and human rights activist Luong Ung, who said the film “will be made with Cambodians as a symbol of dignity and an act of memory.” The two wrote the script together, adapted from Ung’s 2000 memoir.

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