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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Emanuele Coppola
Panda Film
30'
SD
The bottlenose dolphin is a marine mammal very common in our seas but seriously threatened by fishing job, ship traffic and pollution.
Del.Ta project – dolphin and turtle protected – is just born with the aim to protect this cetacean and marine turtles of the Caretta caretta species, supported by the European Commission thanks to Life Natura program.
The documentary shows different activities of the project, describing the patient and difficult job carried out by biologists in the protected marine area of the Pelage Islands.
In the waters surrounding Linosa, Lampione and Lampedusa, the most southern Italian point, the highest density of dolphins of the whole Mediterranea Sea has been found.