08-06-2009

An astronaut and a Nobel Laureate will be the keynote speakers at the “5th Astronomy Conference of Almeria” organized by K 2000

 

For fifth consecutive year, one of the most relevant scientific dissemination meetings on Astrophysics and Cosmology will be held in Almeria between the 9th and the 26th of June.

Coinciding with the International Year of Astronomy, Almeria will host this renowned Astronomy Conference. On this occasion the American astronaut Ellen Baker, a physician and geologist who has already travelled three times into space, will open the series of lectures.

The last lecture will be given by North American Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes, the inventor of the laser. He will be giving two lectures, the first at the University of Almeria and the second within the series of lectures of the Astronomy Conference at the Apolo Theatre.

The researchers and astrophysicists John Beckman and Isabel Perez will be the two other speakers at the Fifth Conference.

Other activities which will take place in Almeria this year are an Exhibition of large photographs with spectacular images of the Cosmos, most of which have been taken by the Hubble space telescope, and also the usual Visit to Calar Alto Observatory and the Star Observation Night with the Orion Association of astronomy fans.

Sponsorship by Almeria City Council, Unicaja Foundation, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and the University of Almeria, has made it possible to hold this important scientific dissemination event which is already well known at an international level.  

www.portalciencia.net/astroalmeria5.html

27-05-2009

First showing by TVG (Galician TV) of “A caixa negra” (The black box), a journey through social events as seen through the eyes of their protagonists

 

A series produced by K 2000 and Filmanova.

In March 2008, ETB (Basque TV) began broadcasting “La caja negra” (The black box) which, with an average of 24% of viewers tuning in, was the most-watched new showing during this time band in the channel's history. K 2000 produced the 15 programmes, presented by Iñaki López, presenter of the successful current affairs programme “Pásalo” (Pass it on).
                            
Now, K 2000 and El Mundo TV's original format is being shown by TVG (Galician TV) with Fernando González, nicknamed Gonzo, as its presenter. This initial series, broadcast weekly, is made up of 13 programmes, each with an approximate duration of 50 minutes.

Collaboration with Filmanova

“A caixa negra” (The black box) is the second co-production that K 2000 has done with Filmanova. In 2007, they adapted for ETB1 “Baserria 1907”, a programme based on the successful British “History House” format which was made simultaneously in several autonomous regions.

29-04-2009

THE 7TH DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN FILM AND HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL WILL BE ROUNDED OFF ON 30TH APRIL WITH THE PREMIÈRE OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM CHECKPOINT ROCK

 

The film, directed by Fermín Muguruza and Javier Corcuera, reflects the situation in Palestine through music and the country's artists.

The 7th Donostia-San Sebastián Film and Human Rights Festival (23-30 April) will be rounded off on 30th April with the first showing of the documentary film Checkpoint Rock - Songs from Palestine.  Directed by Fermín Muguruza and Javier Corcuera, the film is produced jointly by a Basque production company, K 2000, and a Galician one, Filmanova, with backup by Basque television company ETB, and a grant from the Basque Government and the Cinematography and Audio-Visual Arts Institute.

The world première will be held on 30th April, at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, at 19:30 hours. Following the showing of the film, at 22:30 hours, a concert will be given in Gasteszena Hall, Egia Cultural Centre, by some of the musicians who appear in the documentary.

Checkpoint Rock brings us the sounds of Palestinian music played by the country's artists. Filmed entirely on location in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, it takes us on a journey through a place which the whole World has its eyes turned on but nevertheless has scant knowledge about. What music gives a voice and melody to this place? Who are its most representative musicians and what is life like for them? What do they think about the way fate has touched their lives and how do they brave it with the help of their lyrics and melodies?

From the advertising hoardings and neon lights of Tel Aviv to the poverty and despair of the occupied territories of the West Bank and the great concentration camp that is the Gaza Strip today, Checkpoint Rock shares with very different musicians, from village to village and town to town, from checkpoint to checkpoint, a tour of discovery on which Fermín Muguruza points his movie camera at everything that catches the attention of his astute eyes.

With commentary by a member of the rap group DAM, the documentary introduces us to performers of traditional music, to young hip hop singers, and to rock groups who are trying to carry on with their jobs in spite of all the difficulties they are facing.

Following the showing of the documentary, Fermín Muguruza, accompanied by his usual musicians (Jon Elizalde on the trombone, Sorkun on vocals and Zigor Lampre as DJ) and several Palestinian musicians will give a concert in which they will bring the sounds of Palestine to the people of Euskadi.

The Palestinian musicians participating will be: Amal Murkus, singer of traditional music; Naseem Dakwer, player of the Arabian lute and violin; Habib Aldeek, ood (lute) teacher at the University of Nablus; Suhell Nafar, a singer in Palestine's first group performing rap in Arabic, DAM; Safaa Arapiyat, the first female Palestinian rapper; Kher Fauzi, poet, singer and percussionist with the traditional musical group Walla’at; and Ayman, rap singer.

Following its première in Donostia, in early May Checkpoint Rock will travel to the Saharan International Film Festival; it will also be at Documenta Madrid on 8th May.

29-04-2009

K 2000 produces a documentary about Palestine.

The K 2000 team has travelled around the territory of the West Bank; it went up to the Gaza border during the Israeli air strikes; and it's interviewed Hamas leaders in Syria. Over 50 hours of pictures and interviews that reflect the situation the Palestinians live in on their own territory and which has been featured on the Pásalo (Pass it On) programme which K 2000 produces for Basque TV.

The documentary analyzes the acts approved by the Israeli State in the name of its citizens' security and the direct social, economic and political consequences that these have on the Palestinian people.

The wall which Israel began building in 2002, and which is internationally recognized as an illegal work, rises like a great mural that shouts a shout of freedom to the World. Once completed, there will be 700 kilometres of concrete wall and metal fencing that will isolate Israel from Palestinian territories in defence of the Israelis' security.

In Bethlehem we went through one of the hundreds of military checkpoints situated throughout the West Bank. On foot, under the surveillance cameras, we went through passport control, turnstiles and X-ray.  These checks have a great effect on the economy (loss of work), education (many young people can't get to their classes and drop out of studying), and health (women have their babies in ambulances while waiting to go through the checkpoint).

In the city of Hebron, Israeli soldiers stationed at one of these checkpoints point their weapons at us. Within Hebron there are 17 checkpoints in the hands of the Israeli army, in addition to a series of restrictions which make it difficult or impossible for Palestinian citizens to get to all parts of the city: no entry for Palestinian cars, streets where one can only walk one way, inaccessible streets. Within the city five colonies of Jews have settled, occupying the former homes of Palestinians. A detachment of 4,000 Israeli soldiers provides security cover for these 400 colonizing families.

Nablus used to be Palestine's most thriving city. Today, after a nine-year blockade, it's barely surviving. Signs of poverty and unemployment are evident, and the Israeli military presence is strong and very harsh. All residents of Nablus, without exception (including the Governor, the highest authority and representative of the Palestinian Authority) need a permit from the Israeli Ministry of Defence in order to leave the city. Most children have never crossed this line; they know no world other than the streets of their city.

In Balata refugee camp, the most crowded in all the West Bank, 25,000 people are living in an area of 1 km2.

On the outskirts of Ramallah, the political capital of the West Bank, every Friday young Palestinians congregate by the fence to throw stones at the Israeli soldiers in protest against the wall. This act has become a regular weekly occurrence which the soldiers respond to by firing smoke canisters.

At the height of the Israeli army's shelling we travelled as far as the border of the other Palestinian territory: Gaza. Here, the inhabitants experienced in an even cruder form the demolition of homes, blockades, sieges and preventive arrest. Under the pretext of the Jewish population's security, the Israeli army routinely detains people. Here's a statistic: one in four Palestinians has been detained in prison with no objective cause, only preventively.

Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, thousands of Palestinians have been living in exile in refugee camps distributed mainly in the bordering countries: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon... Under strict security, in Damascus we visited exiled Hamas leaders who, amongst other matters, warned of the danger of fomenting hatred amongst the younger generations.

And so here we have a documentary produced in-house by K 2000 that examines the main reasons for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in a context where coverage of the Israeli air strike on Gaza has captured the world's attention.

29-05-2008

K 2000 celebrates 1,000th “Pásalo” programme in ETB2 The magazine programme will leave the set next Thursday to broadcast a live special.

Next 19th June “Pásalo” will mark its 1,000th programme and leave its usual set, situated in K 2000 headquarters, to broadcast live from the open area outside the BEC (Bilbao Exhibition Centre) in Barakaldo.

For the first time in these 1,000 programmes, current affairs will not be the main feature, because K 2000 is preparing a very special “Pásalo”. Iñaki López and Adela González, the host and hostess, will be surrounded by the most polemic and witty guests in these four years. The viewers will see that the regular guests, as well as being brainy commentators, have other hidden qualities and, above all, a great sense of humour.

The professionals who make “Pásalo” possible want to be in the street and near their audience on this special day. After the broadcasting of the programme, a great social event will take place in the BEC with the slogan “Pásalo celebraremos por todo lo alto” (“Pásalo celebrates in style”) to which a large representation of the Basque society has been invited.

And on Friday 20th June the “Pásalo” number 1,001.

“Pásalo” ETB2: Monday to Friday, 16.00 h

29-05-2008

K 2000 will manage dynamic information at Zaragoza Expo

K 2000 will be the company responsible for managing the content of information screens and the public address system in Spanish, English and French at Expo Zaragoza 2008 premises, for which a content production and management unit has been set up in order to provide flexible solutions, with the maximum quality and speed, for the Expo's communication needs.

The three 24 m2 LED screens situated in different areas of the Expo, the one in the amphitheatre, also LED and with a 50 m2 viewable area, and the 24 plasma screens distributed all over the premises will use a clear and easily understandable graphic style, providing information, either in a joint way or different according to the area, on aspects of interest for the visitors: schedule for the day, latest news...

These screens will be managed from an Adtraxion system, which will display the contents generated by the content production unit, made up of copywriters, camera operators, editors and translators.

05-03-2008

LA CAJA NEGRA (THE BLACK BOX) ETB 2 brings to the screen for the first time a new and original research programme presented by Iaki Lpez and co-produced by K 2000 and SALTA TV

In a prime-time slot on Wednesday 5th March, ETB 2 is screening La Caja Negra (The Black Box) . This new programme, presented by popular Basque journalist Iaki Lpez, will be taking a fresh look at the most socially impactful events that have taken place in Euskadi over the past 30 years. The air disaster which took place on Mount Oiz; Orozko's controversial crime; the Ortuella Primary School tragedy; and the floods which hit Euskadi in the summer of 1983, are some of the events which will be researched in this novel format.

Each time we tune in, the exhaustive research done by the programme team will help us remember, through interviews with eye witnesses, the most important events of our past. Could something similar happen today? In order to answer this question, each week the programme will recover the figurative "black box" of each of the events and, with the benefit of hindsight, will look for new insights that will shed light on what happened.

La Caja negra (The Black Box), is the second joint production by K 2000 and Salta TV for ETB and will be broadcast every Sunday starting at 10 p.m. on the station's second channel.

20-12-2007

The Networked Educational Compendium (Compendio Educativo en Red – CER), developed by K 2000 and Ancora Audiovisual with input from DISCOVERY Education, is to become available in the Government of Catalonia's Public Library Network.

The Department of Culture and Communications Media will be installing the Networked Educational Compendium (Compendio Educativo en Red - CER) in the Government of Catalonia's 327 Public Libraries - putting Catalonia on a par with Castilla y León, whose Education Departments have already installed these connections.

The Compendium, developed by K 2000 and Ancora Audiovisual with input from DISCOVERY Education, is a multi-purpose educational medium developed in Spanish, with 800 video titles, 700 thematic definitions, and 700 pictures and illustrations; all accompanied by up-to-date written reference material on the curricular subjects and with full search facility. The Compendium is a living, dynamic tool, with updates and new features, permanently at the service of education. Being connected to this stupendous source of teaching content on the Internet provides schools, libraries and institutions with an exclusive technical resource for optimizing learning.

25-10-2007

Baserria 1907

K 2000, in co-production with Filmanova and Continental, embarks on a telereality project with a successful international format. It involves a TV time machine by which two modern families are taken one hundred years back in time for them to live together in Baserria 1907, a Basque house which reproduces in detail the living conditions in 1907.

14-03-2007

On-line Pedagogical Compilation

K 2000 and ANCORA AUDIOVISUAL with the collaboration of DISCOVERY EDUCATION, are launching an educational product on the Internet, developed as a compilation of pedagogical contents which includes videos, images, texts and glossary of terms.

22-03-2007

K2000 amongst the 10 production companies with more hours of programming

According to the Television Yearbook 2005-2006 produced by the Office for Audiovisual Communication Studies (G.E.C.A.), the production company K2000 is one of the companies within the audiovisual sector with more hours of programming. These are the results obtained after carrying out a study which details the ranking for the hours of programming of independent production companies in the Spanish State. The main conclusion is that independent production companies are taking up more and more space in the TV programme grid.

K 2000 is situated in the sixth position with 760 hours of programming, with programmes such as "Pásalo", "Bertatik Bertara" and "Kalaka" broadcast on ETB. The eighth position is for the production company Pausoka, with 715 hours of programming and programmes such as "Vaya Semanita" or "Goenkale" also broadcast on ETB. Amongst the most active we find Globomedia, with 1,511 hours broadcast during the 2005-2006 season; Gestmusic-Endemol, with 1,159 hours and Mediapro, with 1,053 hours. All these companies have their main clients amongst national television networks. Other companies which also appear in the list of the 10 production companies with more hours of programming are Cuarzo Producciones, Boomerang TV, Producciones 52, Estudio 1 and Media Report.

02-10-2006

Juan Alberto Belloch officially presents the DVD "Zaragoza City of Ideas"

"The Mayor himself defined it as the visiting card of Zaragoza and Expo 2008 for the whole world". "A surprising audiovisual job." (El Heraldo de Aragón 29/09/06)

"It outlines the present situation of the city and its strategies for the future, with an avant-garde treatment" (hoyInversión 29/09/06)

"It shows the innovation, openness and strategic situation characteristics of the city" (El Periódico de Aragón 29/09/06)

"The city council has prepared an ambitious audiovisual piece of work" (Diario del Alto Aragón 30/09/06)

26-09-2006

Zaragoza's external promotion DVD presented

The DVD will be used for the international promotion of the capital of Aragon, which will host EXPO 2008 and the Secretariat for the UN Water Decade until 2015. This work has been presented in China by the Mayor, Juan Alberto Belloch. It is an interactive multilingual DVD which shows the transformation processes the city is going through. The project, led by our company, intends to show a city with a personality all its own, which stands out for its relevance, differentiation and credibility.

06-06-2006

New web site for Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa

Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa's new web site, designed and developed by K2000, has been available since the beginning of July. This new version will gradually incorporate didactical videos on the instruments used by a symphony orchestra, another example of K2000's involvement in the development of educational content in the sphere of the new technologies.

06-06-2006

2nd Astronomy Conference of Almeria 2006

K 2000 is in charge of organising once more the Astronomy Conference of Almeria to be held in this Andalusian capital between the 9th and the 15th of June.

The programme this year includes a series of conferences with the participation of the Nobel Prize-Winner for Physics Riccardo Giacconi as well as the Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, amongst others. Those present will also enjoy an open day at Calar Alto Observatory and an Astronomic Observations Day.

11-05-2006

City of Ideas

In May, K 2000 will shoot a video in Zaragoza to be used for the international promotion of the Aragonese capital which will host EXPO 2008 and which has recently been declared by the UNESCO the world’s water capital until 2010.

After the shooting of this video, an interactive multilingual DVD will be produced, combining rational and emotional aspects, reinforcing the image of Zaragoza undergoing change, emphasizing the mark of a city strategically connected, with a millennial past and a developing future, determined to create an innovation and high technology business network.

27-04-2006

Kalaka

Info show hosted by Xabier Euzkitze combining information and entertainment.

By means of contrasting opinions as well as the contribution from other genres - interviews, reports, analysis by experts and statements by those affected, etc. - the programme allows the viewer to approach selected topics from Basque and international current affairs, without the frenzied day-to-day pace, analyzing the true dimension of the events; their causes, context and effects.

The main feature of this format - as well as its pace, television tension and its connection to current news - is the specific weight of the viewers' opinions.

22-02-2006

Pasalo!, the afternoon magazine hosted by Iñaki Lopez and Adela Gonzalez has been given the Iparragirre Award 2005.

The Iparragirre awards are given to the best ETB 1 and ETB 2 programmes and presenters,  thanks to the votes of EITB viewers and  listeners.

01-09-2006

Pásalo!

Pásalo! is facing this new season in close connection with current affairs. We will follow the news strictly live and we will bring up the issues which have the greatest social interest. All of which will be accompanied by a reinforced, critical and varied team of guests. The icing will be provided, as usual, by the liveliness and freshness of the programme’s hosts, Adela Gonzalez and Iñaki Lopez-

Bon appetite! PASALO!

04-07-2006

Pika Pika

The summer weekend afternoons have an ideal appetizer: the highlights of current affairs seen under Pika Pika’s television perspective. A cocktail of wit, humour, fine irony, Gurutze Beitia’s charm and our peculiar and exclusive immersion in Ajuria Enea Park. Don’t miss it!!! Saturday and Sunday before the afternoon news.