Yves Billon, Date of Birth

    

Yves Billon

French film director

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1946

Profession: photographer, film director, film producer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About 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 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

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