Thierno Faty Sow (Thiès, Senegal, 1941 – Dakar, 2009) was a Senegalese filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.
Born in 1941 in Thiès, Senegal, Sow studied filmmaking in Paris at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français [fr] (CLCF)[1][2] 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).
[3][4][5][6] It won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 45th Venice International Film Festival in 1988.
[7] Sow also performed as a movie actor in two feature films, Nuit africaine (1990) by Gérard Guillaume and cowriters Gaston Kaboré and Lapeyssonie,[5] and Guelwaar (1992) by Ousmane Sembène.