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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Valter Torri
DocumentAria FIlm
60'
HD
A journey among the Apuan Alps, a spectacular mountain chain worldwide famous for their pure white marble, also known as Carrara’s marble. Born in an ancient sea millions of years ago, because of a coral barrier uplift, these mountains maintain to this day an indissoluble relationship with water.
In every season water, in form of snow, ice, rain and mist, envelopes and penetrates the bowels of these mountains; for this, many impressive torrents and waterfalls often spring with violence from their steep slopes.
Thank to this amount of humidity, many species are able to live on these particularly severe mountains, despite the marble quarries are more and more threatening them.