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]
DIRECTOR
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DURATION
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Francesco Petretti
Diomedea Studium Srl
25'
SD
The films deals with the efforts of Italian Forestry Rangers in Italy to protect the last Bears, which are killed by poachers and by shepherds who put poison baits to kill predators in order to protect their sheep.It is a strong battle, fought day by day in the magnificent mountains in Central Italy.