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Medici Arts represents a catalogue of 1,500 hours of programmes with 50 new films produced every year, including concerts and opears, portraits of great musicians and documentary films. These films benefit from television partnerships at the highest level, such as Arte, NHK, ZDF, PBS and the BBC, and have received worldwide acclaim - an Emmy Award for "Daniel Barenboim and the West-Easter Divan Orchestra", and the Gramophone Award and FIPA d'Or for "Richter, the Enigma". Medici Arts also publishes and distributes the works of some of the greatest masters of documentary films: Johan van der Keuken, Alexandre Sokourov and Frederick Wiseman. In 2008, Larry Weinstein's film "Arturo Toscanini in His Own Words", which will include previously unpublished archive films and documents, will be one of the great music events of the year alongside great filmed concerts conducted by Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle and Gustavo Dudamel.