LOS ANGELES: Actress-turned-director Angelina Jolie is to make a film about Cambodia`s Khmer Rouge regime seen through the eyes of a war-scarred child for Netflix, thestreaming giant said on Thursday.

The Oscar-winning Hollywood A-lister will adapt `First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,` a harrowing memoir by Cambodian human rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly regime.

`I was deeply affected by Loung`s book,` said Jolie, cited in a Netflix statement.

`It deepened forever my understanding of how children experience war and areaffected by the emotional memory of it.And it helped me draw closer still to the people of Cambodia, my son`s homeland,` said the 40-year-old, speaking of Maddox, her adopted son with megastar husband Brad Pitt. Netflix said Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 13, the Hollywood couple`s eldest child, will be involved in the production.

Jolie will direct and produce the film from a script she co-wrote with Ung.

Acclaimed Cambodian director Rithy Panh, nominated for an Oscar for 2013`s `The Missing Picture,` will also serve as a producer.

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said: `We are proud to be working with Angelina Jolie in bringing this emotionally powerful and ultimately uplifting story exclusively to Netflix members around the world.

`Loung Ung`s incredible journey is a testament to the human spirit and its ability to transcend even the toughest circumstances,` he added.

The movie will be released on Netflix in late 2016.

Jolie`s feature film debut was 2011`s `In the Land of Blood and Honey` set in the Bosnian war. Her 2014 `Unbroken` was nominated for three Oscars.

She won an Oscar for best supporting actress for 1999`s `Girl, Interrupted. `She also won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences` Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award last year.-AFP