Yves Billon

Yves Billon (born 9 July 1946, in Paris) is a French documentary film-maker, highly regarded in Europe. He is also founder of the production companies Les Films du Village and Zaradoc.

The documentaries "Religious and Sufi Music of Pakistan" and "The Music of Balochistan" that he produced with a Pakistani ethnomusicologist Adam Nayyar [1] also won silver medal at the Florence Film. Yves Billon made a 52-minute documentary in 1992 in English/French on the music of Bismillah Khan and showed him as one of the greatest shehnai players who changed the status of shehnai from a common court instrument to that of a classical solo instrument. The film was set along the banks of Ganges, in the mystical Varanasi.The day the shehnai died. Aijaz Gul Festival

Credits
  • Far from Fidel, Director
  • De sol a sol, Screenplay
  • La Guerre de pacification en Amazonie, Director & Producer
  • Chronique du temps Sec, Director & Producer
  • De sol a sol, Director & Producer
  • Ali Farka Toure: Ca coule de source, Director, Producer & Screenplay
  • Benares, musique du Gange, Director

References
  1. "Dr Adam Nayyar passes away -DAWN - National; July 30, 2008". DAWN. 2008-07-30. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-09.


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