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

* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Chadian film directors {{Chad-bio-stub