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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Animabit
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Ripples, Polly and Jason wake up in the night and join Icarus in admiring a beautiful sky full of shooting stars. The pelican tells them that whoever finds one can obtain fantastic powers and this sets our three friends off to chase a shooting star that has just landed in the sea. But when they reach the star, they feel no particular effect and just fall asleep by it. Jason dreams of lifting a huge rock that’s obstructing the entrance to Lillo’s den with a super-strength obtained thanks to the star. After waking up, the same scene repeats itself, but instead of special powers, this time the crab uses his intelligence and causes the rock to roll away by moving a small stick that was blocking it, so he is carried in triumph just like in his dream. The three friends join Icarus on the beach, bringing their shooting star along with them, but all of a sudden it glows and goes up again into the sky, taking its place once more in the vault of heavens.