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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After Ripples has a bad dream about the ugly Rospilla toad witch, he closes himself in an empty giant oyster shell. Icarus tries to help him and give him confidence by giving him a “lucky charm”. Ripples is convinced that his new pendant has magic powers and will protect him wherever he is and with whoever he is. He soon realizes however that he has in fact lost his pendant and has managed to deal with different situations without his lucky charm. Icarus explains to Ripples that his courage comes from deep within himself and not from the pendant.