Edouard Sailly Explained

Edouard Sailly
Occupation:	Film director
Nationality:	Chadian

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

Notes and References

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