Yves Billon Explained

Yves Billon (born 9 July 1946, in Paris) is a French documentary film-maker. 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Adam Nayyar passes away -DAWN - National; July 30, 2008 . DAWN . 2008-07-30 . 2010-10-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081202001229/http://www.dawn.com/2008/07/30/nat14.htm . December 2, 2008 .