Cilia Sawadogo completed a BA Major in Communication Studies, Minor in Film Animation at Concordia University in 1989. As director, writer and animator, she has received numerous awards for films she directed at the NFB or independently including L’Arbre aux esprits (2005), La ruse du lievre (2001) Christopher changes his name (1999), Le Joueur de Cora (1996), L’arrèt d’Autobus (1994), Naissance (1993) and La femme mariée à trois hommes (1993).

http://www.africanfilmny.org/2014/cilia-sawadogo/