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==
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 ==References==