SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]
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Annamaria Gallone
Kenzi
26'
SD
A tribute to two great South African divas of the fifties:
Dolly Rathebe and Dorothy Masuku, who tell us about Jim comes to Jo’burg (African Jim), first fiction movie shot in an authentic township.
Revelation of the night club underground world of the township of Johannesburg.