Thierno Faty Sow

Thierno Faty Sow (Thiès, Senegal, 1941 – Dakar, 2009) was a Senegalese filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

Biography Born in 1941 in Thiès, Senegal, Sow studied filmmaking in Paris at the (CLCF) and subsequently worked in French and Senegalese television. He directed documentary shorts and three feature films on his own: Guereo, village de Djibril N'Diaye (1970), L'Option / Mon beau pays (1974), and L'Œil (1981). Sow is best known for the historical drama film Camp de Thiaroye about the Thiaroye massacre near Dakar on December 1, 1944, which he cowrote and codirected with Ousmane Sembène. It won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 45th Venice International Film Festival in 1988.

Sow also performed as a movie actor in two feature films, Nuit africaine (1990) by Gérard Guillaume and cowriters Gaston Kaboré and Lapeyssonie,

Filmography Sow's films include: Year Film Genre Role Duration 1970 La journée de Djibril N'Diaye -Journée d'un paysan sénégalais Biography feature(24 hours in the life of a Senegalese farmer) Director 60 min 1970 Guereo, village de Djibril N'Diaye Feature in black and white(A man prepares to marry a second wife to helpthe first with the heavy work.) Director 90 min 1974 L'Option / Mon beau pays Biography feature, Wolof spoken(After Independence a Senegalese soldier prefers to stay in France.) Director 90 min 1976 Adiosby André Michel Television miniseries Second Unit orAssistant Director for 1 episode 90 min 1977 Exode rural Short Director 1977 Education sanitaire Short documentary Director 1977 Feux de brousse /Feu de brousse Short Director 1977 Sunu Koppe Short Director 1981 L'Œil Historical feature(On mercenaries and military coups in Africa.) Director 80 min 1987 Camp de Thiaroye Historical drama feature(In 1944, the French army massacred several unitsof West African conscripts recently returnedfrom the battlefields of Europe.) Screenwriter and Codirectorwith Ousmane Sembène 148 or 157 min 1990 Nuit africaine (La)by Gérard Guillaume Historical feature, TV movie(Eugène Jamot, a doctor in the colonial army, wasan extraordinary fighter for health in Equatorialand Western Africa.) Actor 104 min 1992 Guelwaar, Légende africainede l'Afrique du XXIe siècleby Ousmane Sembène Feature(By mistake, a Catholic man is given a Muslim burial.) Actor 115 min