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[citation needed ]
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| Vorname: | Yves |
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| Geburtsdatum: | 09.07.1946 (♋ Krebs) |
| Geburtsort: | 15. Arrondissement von Paris |
| Sterbedatum: | 06.10.2021 |
| Sterbeort: | 15. Arrondissement von Paris |
| Alter: | 75 Jahre 2 Monate 27 Tage |
| Nationalität: | Frankreich |
| Sprachen: | Französisch; |
| Geschlecht: | ♂ männlich |
| Berufe: | Fotograf, Filmproduzent, Filmregisseur, |
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