Yves Billon
A graduate of the National Cinema School (ENPC) in Paris, Yves Billon directed his first film in 1974, The War of Pacification in the Amazon. This feature film recounts the construction of the trans-Amazon road which led multinationals to expropriate the Indian tribes of the Amazon.
He has directed and co-directed more than a hundred documentaries, including several on Latin America and world music.