CHRISTILLA HUILLARD-KANN

CEO and Producer, Elda Productions, France


Christilla Huillard-Kann at Elda Productions produces and coproduces films for the French, European and international market. Previously, she was a journalist for the major French Public Radio channel, producer at Lagardère Group, commissioning editor at ARTE FRANCE (working with filmmakers such as Raoul Peck, Thomas Balmès and Anne Aghion among others) 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).

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

Institute/ Organization Profile
Elda productions accompanies and promotes authors’ strong, free, socially engaged artistic visions whose approaches cover the scope of social justice, history, culture for a wide range of European and international audiences. Elda has produced or coproduced films including Marceline. A Woman. A Century (IDFA Premiere 2018), 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, 2023).

Elda is currently coproducing Outsider first feature filmby the Indian directors Kanishka Sonthalia and Siddesh Shetty (FTV, BBC, SVT, NRK, YLE, Al Jazeera). The company’smain partners include ARTE, France Télévisions, BBC, CNC Funds, EEC Media Plan, Eurimages, French Regional Funds,World Cinema Fund, Procirep and the main European and international festivals.

Website:www.eldaproductions.com