Cilia Sawadogo

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Cilia Sawadogo (born 1965) is a Canadian-Burkinabé-German filmmaker.

Biography

Born in Leipzig to a Burkinabé father and German mother, Sawadogo began studying animation techniques at Concordia University in Montreal, graduating in 1989 with a BA in communication studies and a minor in film animation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/cinema/faculty.html?fpid=cilia-sawadogo|title=Cilia Sawadogo Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Head (Film Animation), Cinema|website=www.concordia.ca|access-date=6 April 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?lang=en&id=43|title=Biography of Cilia SAWADOGO|date=21 June 2007|website=African Success|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407054531/http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?lang=en&id=43|archive-date=7 April 2018|url-status=dead}} After graduating, she began to animate and make films professionally, first working on several animations for the American children's show Sesame Street from 1992-1993.{{Cite book|title=Francophone Women Film Directors|last=Pallister|first=Janis|last2=Hottell|first2=Ruth|publisher=Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp|year=2005|isbn=0-8386-4046-X|pages=30–32}} In 1993, her first major work, La femme mariée à trios hommes (The woman with three husbands), was released and received several awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.africanfilmny.org/2014/cilia-sawadogo/|title=Cilia Sawadogo|website=African Film Festival New York|access-date=6 April 2018}} Throughout the 1990s, she worked on numerous short animated films in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, and in 1995 she assisted with the film Jonas et Lisa. She is currently an associate professor of cinema at Concordia University and continues to produce animations, posters, and book illustrations.