Edouard_Sailly

Edouard Sailly

Edouard Sailly

Chadian film director

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

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


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