CATALOGUE OF DOCUMENTARIES 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. OUR PRODUCTS Documentaries are in our blood. Our vast library of products is constantly being updated with our own productions and a growing number of distribution agreements with Italian producers. In 2006, a totally independent distribution division was created in order to establish a sector that is still in early stages of development in Italy: the Worldwide distribution of high quality documentaries. With over 50 years of production experience and long-established relationships with the top buyers and commissioning editors of the World’s leading broadcasters, SD Cinematografica aims to become the first port of call for Producers who want to get their products onto the international market. For more information and to submit your documentary for distribution, please write to [email protected]. NATURE - pag 3 - Italian Parks - 1st season Directed by: Various Produced by: SD Cinematografica Duration: 18x30' Versions: Format: SD The protected areas of Italy now cover around 10% of the country.National parks are now a reality in Italy. But it is not just a question of size; they represent an extraordinary resource, much of it unknown.And yet this is the real face of Italy: the alpine landscapes, coniferous forests, mixed forests, the Mediterranean Maquis, the hillsides, coast lands and marine environments. This series, shot by a number of directors, offers foreign viewers an unusual view of an Italy rich in flora and fauna. Some of these documentaries have won prestigious international prizes. Episodes: - Adamello-Brenta - Majella - Circeo - Bellunese Dolomites - Monti Sibillini 2 - Aeolian archipelago - Gran Sasso - Maremma - Nera river - Gargano - Tolfa - Cilento - Monti Sibillini - Tavoliere - Vesuvius - Gennargentu - Abruzzo - Asinara - pag 4 - Episodes Adamello-Brenta A few kilometers west of Trento, and about two thousand meters above it, is a mountainous territory which has won hearts of Italian mountaineers and skiers. Here you will find the Brenta Peaks, a dolomitic complex formed of impervious pinnacles and vast snow-fields dominating the Sarca and Noce Valleys with a spectacle of magnificent beauty. And it was in order to protect these wonders from speculative greed and touristic carelessness that the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park was born. It has provided a refuge for the Alpine brown bear as well as deer, chamois, foxes, marmots and eagles. The documentary films the park territory from a bird's eye view, following it through the seasons, from the valley to the snowy peaks, in search of its secret wonders. Bellunese Dolomites At less than 100 kilometres from Venice, famous for its name, but little known to the public at large, the Bellunese Dolomites give to the visitor the possibility to make extraordinary discoveries. 32,000 hectares of virgin mountain landscape, often wild, and rich in animal life. A vegetation which is unique in the world, and the signs and tracks of an ancient history. Solitary, silent, and mysterious, these are the mountains of Buzzati, and its Barnabo, today contained in a new highly explorable National Park. Gran Sasso The documentary is about the Gran Sasso and Laga Mountains history in the hearth of the Abruzzi Apennines that became populated with animal life nowadays protected in the great national park, after a long period of habitation and after man’s transformation in a place for sheep. Life at elevate altitude, the endemic plants, the big animals as the chamois and the wolf, the alpine birds live in these summits, the higher of the Apenines, where a little glacier survives, a relict of the glacial eras. Gargano The Gargano National Park: a bridge between land and sea, between Italy and the Balkans, between past and present, between nature and human beings. And in the very middle of it, a forest which is amongst the oldest and best preserved in Italy; along the green coastline, sweet-smelling pinewoods overlook crystal clear sea and steep cliffs. It's a paradise of animal and vegetable bio-diversity with extremely rare animals such as the Italian roe deer, as well as over 60 species of wild orchids. In Gargano, for thousands of years, people's lives have been bound up with nature in a harmonious relationship which finds expression in the cultural heritage (castles, museums, archaeological sites, sanctuaries, ancient towns and villages), in the peasant farming and the fishing communities, in a centuries-old religious tradition (the Shrine of the Archangel Michael) as well as a present-day tradition (Padre Pio). The documentary narrates these aspects, combining spectacular images gathered after long and patient filming, with the knowledge of a fascinating story. Monti Sibillini In front of the infinite heights of Castelluccio, one is struck by the grandiosity of the countryside, and in spring, by the marvels of the flowers. Kingdom of fairies, mythological legends, and hermits, the Sibillini are the ideal place for the dreamer and lover of silence. Norcia and Visso, enclosed behind their mediaeval walls, are towns which are still intact. Vesuvius The Vesuvius National Park was set up following strong pressure from environmental groups whose aim was to protect the world's most famous volcano from human depredation and urban encroachment. Since the setting up of the park, there has been a noticeable change of attitude in the area - many harmful activities, such as wildfires, rubbish tips, illegal building and poaching, are now memories of the past. Their place has been taken by environmental engineering, cleaning operations and recovery of the natural surroundings with its flora and fauna. It is a rewarding experience to move from the squalor of urban sprawl to the revived surroundings of the park with its plant and animal life including various species of hawks, foxes, hares, ring-doves and wood pigeons. A park in the front line struggling against degradation - a park which seems to have won an almost impossible battle. - pag 5 - Abruzzo In the area of the Abruzzo National park, with its villages, its people and its unique environment in Italy, the union between man and nature has been really very fruitful. It harmonised the need for natural protection with that for economic development and employment. The park is famous not only for the presence of the chamois, the Apennine wolf and the Marsican brown bear, but also for its cordial inhabitants and attractive villages, very rich in tourism and handycraft. Majella Majella is a mountain of a thousand faces and a thousand stories. In the heart of the Apennines, facing and dominating the Adriatic coast, the old mountain was described by Pliny as the "Father of Mountains", but then in time, it was to become "The Mother Mountain," for all the Abruzesi, rich in water, pastures, woods, and as prodigious as a mother. From the summit to the base, the voyage of discovery of the "mother mountain" delights one with its surprises. The wolf is the symbol of the National Park of Majella. Today, its population is growing, and the wolf continues to live its natural life in the wild spaces of the Massiccio, and to hunt its prey which has also returned to its Natural numbers thanks to the reintroduction projects. The program of reintroduction of the deer has had particular success, which since 1984 has returned to inhabit the mountain slopes. Monti Sibillini 2 Padre Pietro is the last knight of the court of the Sibilla. After 30 years of solitude in the house he built stone by stone, vertically over the abyss of hell, a long way from civilisation and closer to his God, he recounts the emotion of his extraordinary life. He guides us into the discovery of the place where nature, magic and tradition merge in a unique entity: the park of Monti Sibillini. On horseback between Marches and Umbria, between legend and reality, rises this little world of impossible colours, breathtaking views, and men of times past. Maremma The Uccellina Mountain Park preserves 9000 hectares of a wonderful Tuscan Maremma, from the seashore with its sandy dunes e its cliffs, to the fifth Masquis, to the ilex groves, to the pine-forest. Wild boars, roebucks, does and other kind of birds live there. Horses and wild cows are breeded there. Sveva Sagramola, with the naturalist Francesco Petretti’s guide, shows us the most important and curios particulars of Maremma, everybody’s reach. Tolfa Seventy hectares of oak trees, meadows, a thick extension of impassable spots, 200 species of mammals and wild birds, some toward extinction, a rich collection of vegetable species that roves from the tropical species to the boreal ones. We are not talking about a wild land at the frontiers of the inhabited world, but of a hilly region of volcanic origin at the door of Rome, miraculously escaped from the siege of buildings and roads, thanks to its inhospitable territory and particular nature of its land. Large estates, one time properties of marquis and princes, now managed by the towns of Tolfa, Allumiere, Manziana, Cerveteri, are devoted today, like many centuries ago, to the cutting of trees, to the breeding of wild horses and maremma cattle with their beautiful horns and irascible nature.