From Monday to Friday, Nuria Roca will be on TV screens in the early-afternoon slot on laSexta sharing out big-money prizes. Last Wednesday saw the premiere of the latest version of the show which has proven to be one of the most successful TV quiz-shows world-wide.

Six contestants, 15 questions and 100,000 euros on offer every day. With the same spirit as the legendary quiz-show but with more excitement than ever. No jokers, a time-limit to answer questions and no opportunity to stick. A race against time to take home the jackpot.

laSexta has once again invested in quality entertainment, one of the network’s trade-marks with the return of the experienced Nuria Roca to present the show. One of the best quiz-shows of all time with one of Spanish TV’s most highly considered presented.

International success

laSexta has brought a proven international winner to Spanish TV screens with the latest version of the legendary quiz-show which revolutionised the genre more than a decade ago. One of the most widely sold and successful entertainment formats is back and upgraded with Mediapro and Four Luck Banana producing the show.

“El millonario”, from home and on laSexta.com

Everybody gets a chance to play on “El millonario”. Every afternoon, Nuria Roca puts up an extra 500 euros for the viewers to play for. They simply have to watch, ring in and answer the questions correctly in order to win the prize.

In addition, “El millonario” goes out live on laSexta.com. A unique way to take part in the quiz-show from the comfort of your own home whilst you pit your wits against the contestants on the programme. The laSexta website contains a comprehensive mini-site with all the information about the programme, highlights videos, exclusive content, and a making-of section, everything you need to know about “El millonario”.

In barely a minute, Mario Casas, Clara Lago and María Valverde summon up an explosive cocktail of excitement, love and action-packed drama. If two weeks ago saw the release of the first poster promoting “Tengo ganas de ti” featuring a solitary and enigmatic shot of Mario Casas, the 14th February saw the release of the first public images of the film directed by Fernando González Molina. A perfect starter which sees a powerful triangle of emotion starring Hache (Casas), Gin (Lago) and Babi (Valverde).

Just as in the first installment (“Tres metros sobre el cielo”), in “Tengo ganas de ti” action, motorbikes and love are interwoven into the plot of the film which starts two years after the finish of the first film. After spending time in New York, 'Hache', played by Mario Casas, returns home. A return which turns out to be anything less than easy as he still hasn’t got over his break-up with 'Babi' (María Valverde) or the death of his best friend. However, the appearance of 'Gin' (Clara Lago) turns his life around and keeps him from dwelling too much on the past and thinking about the future.

The film, which is slated to go on general release on 22nd June distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Intl España, is a Zeta Cinema, Antena 3 Films, Cangrejo Films and Globomedia Cine production, with the support of Antena 3, laSexta and Canal Plus

“Tengo ganas de ti” is the second part of the successful “Tres metros sobre el cielo”. Both films are an adaptation of the novel of the same name by the popular Italian writer Federico Moccia, who has revolutionised the Italian fiction market with his books about young people in love.

Next Sunday sees “Midnight in Paris” take centre stage at this year’s Oscar award ceremony with four high-profile nominations: best film, best director (Woody Allen), best original screenplay (Woody Allen) and best art direction (Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil).

In addition to becoming the highest-grossing independent international production in 2011, the Woody Allen film’s awards mantelpiece continues to grow. One of the latest awards for the film includes the Film Writers’ Award for best original screenplay, the same category which saw the film win a Golden Globe Award late last year.

“Midnight in Paris” was also the most downloaded film in iTunes in Spain last weekend and was in 10th spot worldwide. At the same time, the Mediapro production was in second spot in the Filmin independent category on the weekend of its launch. Since its cinema premiere in May 2011, the film has proven a huge success. The launch of the DVD of the film saw it top the sales charts as well as being one of the most watched films at the cinema in the last 12 months.

“Águila Roja” was one of the night’s big winners at the TP de Oro 2011 awards ceremony, a ceremony which was launched 40 years ago by the readers of the popular magazine. The series produced by Globomedia for TVE won the TP de Oro for Best Spanish Fiction Series and David Janer picked up the Best Actor award for his role as the series’ masked hero.

For “Águila Roja” this is the third straight TP de Oro for Best Spanish Fiction Series. The latest award in a long line of prizes for the series set in 17th century Spain which is the most watched fiction series since 2005. In the recently finished fourth series, the series produced by Globomedia for TVE was watched by an average of 5,798,000 viewers (29.3% share).

The awards will take their place on the mantelpiece alongside a long list of other awards picked up by the series since its launch in 2009, highlights include the Silver Medal at the New York TV Festival; a host of different awards by the TV Academy (Best Fiction Series, Best Producer, Best Photographic Director, Art Direction and Make-up); the “Pasión de Críticos” Award at the Vitoria TV Festival for Best Drama Series and an Ondas Award for “rediscovering the adventure series for TV and setting a benchmark whilst entertaining millions of viewers”.

For David Janer this is his first TP de Oro for Best Actor. The award highlights his dual role in the series: a teacher called Gonzalo and a masked hero who everybody knows as Águila Roja.

TP Award for the Coca-Cola advert, produced by Ovideo

The Coca Cola fund-raising advert “Razones para creer” won a TP Oro award for Best Advert. The campaign, which features anonymous people carrying out acts of solidarity, was produced by Jesús Alonso with Ovideo for the McCann Erickson agency.

The 28th February sees laSexta3 reach its first year on air and as a special present TODO CINE is letting viewers decide what they can watch. Laughs, tears, love, action … The viewers who’ve followed laSexta3 over the course of the first year will get the chance to be directors for a day.

Over the last 12 months, nearly 1,000 films have been screened on laSexta3. Now, the viewers will choose the six films they want to see on Tuesday 28th February. On the laSexta website (www.lasexta.com/cine) the twelve options chosen by some of Spain’s leading film-makers and actors can be found. Viewers can vote for their favourite films and get the chance to decide the programming schedule on laSexta3 TODO CINE on the day of its first birthday.

Carlos Areces wants to venture inside the “Labyrinth” with David Bowie. Antonio Resines is backing “Bienvenido Mr Marshall”; Elena Anaya thinks “The Big Boss”; Raúl Arévalo wants to see Chaplin in “The great dictator”; Nacho Vigalondo is out on the town with John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction”; Rubén Ochandiano is putting on his best suit for “Four weddings and a funeral”; Julián López isn’t quite sure what to find in “The Changeling”; Álex Angulo is off to Vietnam with Coppola in “Apocalypse Now Redux” and Manuela Vellés is on air with Robin Williams in “Good Morning Vietnam”; Nora Navas is supporting “Scarface”; Mariano Barroso wants to go bowling with “The big Lebowsky”; and Paco Plaza wants to know who “The man who shot Liberty Balance” is.

With the Berlinale taking place in the German capital, the final showcase of the R+D project 2020 3D Media was held in the Fraunhofer HHI buildings in Berlin, the home of one of the project partners.

Representatives from the European Union were present to watch the screening of the experimental production, “Double Happiness”, conceived by Crew and surrounded by technologies designed for the project (3D image, 360º immersive imaging, 3D sound and different calibration software solutions, post-production, meta-data management and broadcast software.

For the demonstration itself a 270º screen with 16 3D-sound channels was installed. The development of the 3D sound by Barcelona Media was the work of a start-up company (www.immsound.com) which is integrating its 3D solutions in cinemas around the world. Another of the start-ups from the project is Camargus, a company which sells specialised audiovisual solutions using stitching technology developed at the University of Hasselt (www.ibbt.be). Another of the demonstrations in Berlin showcased the signal distribution solution created by DataSat and the Technicolor warehousing based on a 10Gb Ethernet solution. The technologies developed by the other partners (Joanneum Research, Mediapro Research, University of Reading, Digital Projection, Grass Valley and Doremi), had been exhibited in previous events.

The final demonstration took place in the TimeLAB in the Fraunhofer offices, a permanent installation which features a 180º panoramic screen, the Infitec stereoscopic system and IOSono around sound with multiple loudspeakers completely surrounding the audience.

In addition to the students in the technical universities in Berlin and the members of the commission, other film and TV world professionals were present in Berlin to see the Final Showcase.

The 2020 3D Media Project is coming to an end after four years of joint work among the project partners and is being used as a benchmark for future projects by members of the European Commission. The Final Review is slated for this spring in Brussels.

For more information about the project please visit www.20203Dmedia.eu

PHOTO 1: Final demonstration in the TimeLAB in the Fraunhofer buildings. PHOTO 2: One of the first ESPN functional prototypes used for broadcasts for virtual zooms for images generated by 16 HD cameras. PHOTO 3: Trifocal map generation system in real time. PHOTO 4: Screen of the 270º demonstration with 16 3D sound channels.

"Un lugar donde vivir" is a programme produced by El Torreón del Sol, for the Castilla La Mancha regional TV network. It began broadcasts on Monday February 13th in prime-time, with excellent viewing figures for the first programme.

The 60-minute long programme features up-close reports on villages of fewer than 100 inhabitants in Castilla La Mancha. The first programme focuses on the village Viana de Jadraque (Guadalajara) and La Cierva (Cuenca) and what they’re like and what it’s like to live there. The villagers let the cameras into their homes and share their lives with the viewers.

The image designed by Zeligstudio sets out to reproduce the quiet life in the villages featured in the series using the typical scenes encountered in the villages: the market, the countryside, the farm animals, the bus-stop, and the main square as the hub of activity.

The scenes were filmed using macro-scale photography techniques due to the size of the objects: lenses with little depth of field, short focal distances and gentle camera movements and changes of scene.

With these techniques the aim was give the scenes a magic, slightly surreal touch with the colours and textures introduced in the post-production phase giving the images a warm, inviting feel.

The music fits neatly with objectives of the programme, mixing instruments from local musical groups with background effects: nature, bells, and the sound of people talking …

To see the project: http://www.zeligstudio.com/en/project/Un-lugar-donde-vivir

“Capacitados” is a 13-episode documentary series co-produced by Ovideo and the ONCE Foundation and TVE and inspired in the documentary of the same name made three years ago by the same foundation.

The series, which is in production, will show the difficulties that a series of public figures face when they experience typical situations that people with physical disablities encounter every day.

The Méjico state school in Madrid, has been chosen by the Globomedia Foundation to host the first Beginners’ Course in Audiovisual Techniques for primary school kids. The Globomedia Foundation chose this particular school as it was the state school that got the highest marks in the regional government of Madrid’s educational assessments in the Essential Skills category (99.8%) in the language, maths and culture tests. In addition, it is a school which is used as a centre for integrating children with motor-skill disabilities with 25 kids throughout the school as well as having 30% of the kids from different nationality backgrounds. One of the keys to education at the school is the extra-school activities which allow pupils to “increase their knowledge of the world”.

The activity that the Globomedia Foundation carries out consists of the organisation of workshops to allow children to become more familiar with the world of film, TV and photography from a practical perspective. The kids will make documentaries, news bulletins, quiz-shows and of course fiction programmes going through the different stages of production from: writing a script, production, and post-production processes. The aim of the course is to give the pupils at the Méjico School the audiovisual tools to be able to contemplate making their own productions as well as enhancing their own personal development and confidence in their abilities.

The course, designed by the Globomedia Foundation will be given, among others, by students in the Globomedia sponsored Production of Fiction Series Masters Degree at Antonio de Nebrija University. The workshops, which will be given on Tuesdays and Fridays until the end of May, have generated a lot of interest from the students at the school and have seen 25 students sign up already.