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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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Fabio Toncelli

SD Cinematografica

52'

SD

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A dramatic environmental dilemma: is hunting by pigmies and the Yanguere threatening the survival of animals in the Ngotto rainforest in Central Africa? The research project of a young biologist (and beach volleyball champion) is told using unique footage. Hunting with nets, lethal traps, meat traders and the extraordinary relationship that grows up between the scientist and the inhabitants of a remote village in the unexplored jungle. We are in Kanaré, in the heart of the rainforest of N'Gotto, a completely isolated spot fourteen hours travel over dirt roads from Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. In this Bantu village of 80 inhabitants, in an abandoned mud hut, lives a white zoologist, the 33-year-old Italian Andrea Ghiurghi. This year, as always, he has left the beaches of the world, where he plays beach-volley, representing Italy in the last Olympics. For many months Andrea has been getting up at dawn or in the middle of the night, whenever the weather permits, to join a group of men from this or one of another three villages and following them into the heart of the forest as they pursue their main activity: hunting.

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