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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Francesco Petretti
Diomedia Studium
50 min.
HD
The film describes insects and spider life , showing the predatory habits of large crickets and criptic mantis, the social hunt of hornets and many behaviours of small animals , among which the amazing omosex species the Saga pedo , which is not a lion or a leopard, it is simply a predatory bush cricket and reproduces without the contribute of the males.
It is able to kill creatures which are as big as itself and so it can be considered the true king of the creatures that inhabit the Mediterranean steppe in the South of Italy, where animals are born and die every day just like in the most spectacular African bushveld.