Christilla Huillard-Kann (FRANCE)

Christilla Huillard-Kann

Christilla Huillard-Kann is Producer and co-founder of Elda Productions, a production company of documentaries created in 2016. Through the desire to tell stories of the world, we accompany and promote author’s strong, free, socially engaged artistic visions. Their approaches cover the scope of social justice, history and culture for a wide range of European and International audiences such as “OUTSIDER” first feature film by the Indians directors Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty (FTV, BBC, Al Jazeera, SVT, NRK 2023) ; -“NO U-TURN” first feature film by Ike Nnaebue (Generation Africa, Special Mention Best Documentary, Berlinale 2022) ; -“RACHEL CARSON, ANOTHER SILENT SPRING” by Tamara Erde (Arte France 2021) ; -“MARCELINE” by Cordelia Dvorak (IDFA Premiere 2018) ; -“ART MARKET UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION” by Vassili Silovic (Arte France, RTS, Histoire TV, 2021)… Elda’s main partners include CNC Funds, Eurimages, ARTE France, French Regional Funds, World Cinema Fund, European TV channels, Procirep. https://www.eldaproductions.com/

Christilla Huillard-Kann was formerly Deputy Director of New Medias, in charge of editorial at RADIO FRANCE, the major French Public Radio Station. Prior to this, she was commissioning editor at ARTE FRANCE (documentaries department), Producer and Head of documentary department at Image et Cie (Lagardère group), and journalist and editor at France Inter, the major French Public Radio channel. For a short time, she also worked as a demographer at Unesco. She holds a M. Philo in Demograhics and Econometrics at SciencesPo and a MSc in Economics at the Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development (IEDES Paris).