Edouard Sailly

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

Life
Sailly trained in France with Actualités Françaises. In the 1960s and early 1970s he made a series of short, mostly ethnographic, documentary films.

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