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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Francesco Petretti
Diomedea Studium Srl
25'
SD
The last population of Brown Bears of the Appennines , in Central Italy, consists of less than 50 individuals which inhabit a magnificent environment of mountains, streams and beech wood protected in large parks. The bears are active by night , but some of them, tameless, changed their attitude towards the human beings and visit by day villages and farmhouses to steal food.