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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Carlo & Lodovico Prola

Ditta Prola

20x26'

SD

A complicated system of relationships inextricably binds each title of the natural ecosystems. In fact, scientists are just startling to understand the complex nature of the animal world. In their opinion, each behavior, each shape, and colour is never there by mere chance. Everything takes place following a rigorous survival law. How to proceed? In front of this still greatly unknown world, researchers and scientists find themselves as if they had to translate an unknown language without a dictionary!
Little by little, with patience, deep study and analysis, they explain the oddest (or funny) behaviours, disclose the mystery of strange shapes, flashy colourful feathers or the designs on the snakes’ skin. They find answers to the motivations of rituals and dances, they reveal the mechanism that governs the relationship between the species and the language they use.
Following the guidance of specialists in ecology, animal behavior and natural sciences, this series will allow the viewer to get to know and better understand the marvelous world of animals. And it might also, very often, uncover the deep roots of many human behaviours.

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