"I came to this country and I fell in love with its people and learned its history, and in doing so learned, how little I actually knew about the world," she told the BBC's Yalda Hakim.
"This country, for me was my awakening.
"I'll always be very grateful to this country. I don't think I ever could give back as much as this country has given me."
First They Killed My Father is based on a book of the same name by Loung Ung.
Ms Ung was five when she and her family were forced to leave their home in the capital, Phnom Penh, by the Khmer Rouge, the regime which ran the country between 1975 and 1979, under Pol Pot.
It is estimated that about two million people, around a quarter of the population, were either murdered by the regime or died from starvation and overwork.
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