Khady Sylla (Dakar, March 27, 1963 â Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a Senegalese writer of two novels, short work, and filmmaker.
Born in Dakar, she studied at the ÃÂcole Normale Supérieure where she became interested in a literary career. She later became one of a small number of African women film makers. Her An Open Window won a first film prize at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film https://web.archive.org/web/20070313100725/http://www.fidmarseille.org/awardslist.htm. She was one of several Senegalese filmmakers mentored by French ethnologist Jean Rouch. She was the older sister of the filmmaker Mariama Sylla, with whom she co-directed the film Une simple parole.