---
name: "Loung Ung"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/loung-ung"
fi1m_id: "loung-ung"
imdb_id: "nm5388389"
tmdb_id: 1780413
wikidata_id: "Q2330022"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "19 November 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-02T23:57:05.535991+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Loung Ung

## Identity

Loung Ung

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/loung-ung
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** loung-ung
- **IMDb ID:** nm5388389
- **TMDB ID:** 1780413
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2330022
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loung_Ung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330022, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5388389/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1780413

Producer. Born 19 November 1970 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 19 November 1970, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- **Also known as:** អ៊ឹង លួង
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loung_Ung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330022, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5388389/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1780413

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*First They Killed My Father*](https://film.one/film/first-they-killed-my-father.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Loung Ung is a Cambodian-American writer and activist. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2017 film *First They Killed My Father*, directed by Angelina Jolie and adapted from her memoir of the same title.

Born in Phnom Penh in 1970, Ung survived the Khmer Rouge regime before moving to the United States as a refugee in 1980. Her debut book, *First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers* (2000), describes her childhood experiences. She has written two further memoirs and served as national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from 1997 to 2005.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, litcharts.com, loungung.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *First They Killed My Father* (2017), Fi1m 66, Book, Screenplay, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/first-they-killed-my-father.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *First They Killed My Father* (2017), Executive Producer, Book, Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/first-they-killed-my-father.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature 2001: Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (won)
- Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship 1997: Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/loung-ung