Sahelis Productions is a film and television video production and post-production company based in
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's ...
, Burkina Faso.
The company was founded in 1992 by
Sékou Traoré
Sékou Traoré is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso. He and his friends Dani Kouyaté and Issa Traoré de Brahima established the production company Sahelis Productions
Sahelis Productions is a film and television video production and post-producti ...
(Director),
Issa Traoré de Brahima (Director, Artistic Director) and
Dani Kouyaté (Director).
History
The three founders were studying film together in Paris in 1989 when they decided to found the company.
They were assisted in launching Sahelis Production in 1992 by filmmakers
Lacina Ouédraogo and
Abdoulaye Dao, and by Paris-based
Claude Gilaizeau of "
Productions de la Lanterne".
Sékou Traoré was manager from 1992 to 2007. Dani Kouyaté and Issa Traore de Brahima co-managed the company from 2007 to 2011.
Lacina Ouédraogo became manager in March 2011. The company has produced or co-produced six feature films and about fifteen short films.
Sahelis has also made many commercials and twenty documentary films.
Filmography
Fiction feature films
Fiction short films
Documentaries
References
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Mass media companies of Burkina Faso