OUR HISTORY

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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Beach. Ripples, hiding behind a tree-trunk, makes Jason believe he’s a talking tree; at the same time, Polly does the same with two of her friends. They then tell Icarus all about their practical jokes and a discussion arises about who’s better between males and females. To try and find an answer, the pelican suggests a competition: a male team and a female one will compete to see which will be the first to reach the salty limpets’ reef and bring back to the fishing boat the blue stone they will find there. During the challenge, the teams meet up with several dangerous situations, which they only come out of safely through mutual help. Once on the reef, the two teams can only tear away the blue stone with a joint effort. Back on the fishing boat, they all tell Icarus about their adventures and the lesson they’ve learnt: united we stand, divided we fall

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