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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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Daniele Cini

SD Cinematografica

26 min.

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The Valle d’Itria, in the Murge plateau, in Puglia, hosts one of the most bizarre forms of habitation that man has maintained until today: the trulli. The town of Alberobello is certainly the place that has preserved the most and for their maintenance an art has developed that has specialized over time: the art of master trullari. At Locorotondo, the same structure develops into another type of construction: cummersa. The Valle d'Itria then plunges from the plateau to Fasano, where in ancient caves excavated in the tuff reborn in a living crib, the ancient crafts of this area so attached to the traditions: from the underground oil mills to the cultivation of the queen tomato , an excellence of the area.

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