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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Valter Torri

DocumentAria Film

4 Eps. x 52 Min.

HD

Many things can arouse emotions in humans and one of the most common is the enjoyment of the beauty of the landscape.

In Italy these emotions reach their climax.

The Italian landscape is unique, characterized by a huge variety of different natural environments in a relatively small geographical area. It is a landscape unequalled anywhere in the world, formed into thousands of years of history by the hand of successive human populations.

In this series of three episodes we will feel the intense emotions caused by the sight of some of the most typical Italian landscapes: the Apuan Alps, the marble mountains overlooking the sea; the Apennines of the high pastures of the still wild Garfagnana in Tuscany; and that of the second largest island in the Mediterranean, Sardinia, of which we will see some of its less known natural environments.

And to further heighten the emotional impact of these extraordinary landscapes, in two episodes also we tell the stories of the people who live in these landscapes, and have a moving, conflicted love/hate relationship with their environment.

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