Edouard Sailly

Edouard Sailly was 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