Yves Billon

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.