Christilla Huillard-Kann | Delegate Producer | Elda Productions | France

Christilla Huillard-Kann, CEO and producer at Elda Productions (France) produces and co-produces films for the French, European and international market. Prior to this, she was a journalist for the major French Public Radio Channel, a producer at Lagardère Group, a commissioning editor at ARTE FRANCE and Deputy Director of Digital at Radio France. She recently produced NO U-TURN by Ike Nnaebue (Berlinale 2022 special mention, Best African feature film - GenerationAfrica) and Until I Fly by Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty.

She holds an M. Philo in Demographics and Econometrics at SciencesPo and an MSc in Economics. She is a member of the audiovisual commission of the CNC and does mentoring in different documentary workshops.

Elda Productions

Elda Productions accompanies and promotes authors’ strong, free, socially engaged artistic visions whose approaches cover the scope of social justice, history, and culture for a wide range of European and international audiences.

Elda has produced or co-produced films including THE BASEMENT by Roman Blazhan (Ukraine), NO U-TURN by Ike Nnaebue (Berlinale 2022, Best feature Film at Africa Movie Academy Awards), THE MUSEUM AND THE BILLIONNAIRE (Fifa 2021), RODEO GIRLS (ARTE France, 2023), UNTIL I FLY by the Indian directors Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty (FTV, BBC, SVT, NRK, YLE, Al Jazeera) and currently producing SUNDAY IN JAPAN by Leo Nelki (France, UK, Portugal, Japan).

The company’s main partners include ARTE, France Télévisions, BBC, European broadcasters such as SVT, NRK, YLE, RAI, RTS... CNC Funds, EEC Media Plan, Eurimages, French Regional Funds, World Cinema Fund, Procirep and the main European and international festivals.

Website:https://www.eldaproductions.com/en/