Edouard Sailly

Edouard Sailly
Nationality	Chadian
Occupation	Film director

Edouard Sailly is a pioneering Chadian film director, "the first filmmaker in Chad". ^[1]

Life

Sailly trained in France with Actualités Françaises. In the 1960s and early 1970s he made a series of short, mostly ethnographic, documentary films. ^{[2] [3]}

Filmography

• Pêcheurs du Chari [The Fishermen of Chari], 1964
• Le Lac Chad [Lake Chad], 1966
• Les abattoirs de Forchia [The Slaughterhouses of Forchia], 1966
• Salam el Kebir, 1966
• Largeau, 1966
• Le Troisième Jour [The Third Day, 1967
• L'enfant du Tchad [Child of Chad], 1972
• A la decouverte du Tchad, 1972

References

1. Mario J. Azevedo; Samuel Decalo (2018). Historical Dictionary of Chad. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 327–8. ISBN   978-1-5381-1437-7.
2. Kenneth W. Harrow; Carmela Garritano (2018). A Companion to African Cinema. Wiley. p. 378. ISBN   978-1-119-09985-7.
3. "SAILLY, Edouard". Les cinémas d'Afrique: dictionnaire. KARTHALA Editions. 2000. pp. 407–8. ISBN   978-2-84586-060-5.

External links

• Edouard Sailly at IMDb