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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L. Boitani, M. Visalberghi, G. Pancaldi, A. D'Onofrio
SD Cinematografica
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This is the little known story of the double personality that often exists in domestic dogs. Just as Dr. Jekyll was transformed into Mr. Hyde, in the same way man's most faithful friend often changes, at night, into a ferocious delinquent, roaming through the countryside attacking chickens and herds of sheep. The next morning the dog is the usual affectionate, overgrown puppy it always was. This is the first step down a road leading slowly towards the breakup of the animal's alliance with man and a return to the wild life of its ancestor, the wolf. Today in Italy feral dogs number more than a million and those who have gob back to the wild are almost 100,000. The phenomenon has reached alarming proportions and even threatens the survival of the last wolves remaining in Italy, estimated to be no more than 200 to 250 specimens.