Subtle - The Subtitlers' Association

05/06/2026

01/06/2026

Don't forget to get your ticket to our next webinar on cybersecurity with Martijn Grooten!

Barely a day goes by without cybersecurity making it to the news. It affects everyone and if you work with highly valued content, such as films and series prior to their official release date, it will affect you even more.

This two-hour webinar will focus on cybersecurity threats to AVT professionals and how to mitigate them.

Wednesday 3rd June, 4-6 pm UK time
Online
Free for Subtle members, £15 for non-members.

Sign up via the link in the comments!

28/05/2026

In our latest episode of Loc’d Ones, we talk to the effervescent Isabelle Le Blanc, former Globalization Partner Manager at Netflix. Isabelle spills the tea on what it’s like working for one of the biggest streaming platforms, how she united and empowered women in the workplace, what producers think about issues like AI and authors' rights, and how being endlessly curious about others has got her into some interesting situations…

You can watch the full episode on YouTube and all your favourite podcast platforms.

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26/05/2026

AudioVisual Translators Europe has released a manifesto on the negative impact of "first come, first served" automated job assignment systems, commonly known as shark tanks, on translation quality, income, work-life balance and mental health.

The manifesto was written by our chair, Max Deryagin, in consultation with several of our members. We propose a new approach based on an Equitable Task Assignment System, EquiTASS, which combines automation and a fairer process for selecting the most suitable linguist for a task.

You can read the manifesto here:

Written by Max Deryagin in consultation with Susana Loureiro, Adriana Tortoriello, Rachel Jones, Miroslav Pošta and Iris C. Permuy.

13/05/2026

How would you describe the unusual and whacky sounds of the fairy tale world?

In the latest instalment of "My Favourite Project", Rachel Jones writes about her experience creating German to English subtitles for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers for four films based on Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Enjoy! (The link is in the comments)

06/05/2026

It’s time for another !

“Subtitle silence if plot-pertinent” instruct some SDH style guides, but sometimes it’s a bit more complicated than that. In a movie like “A Quiet Place” (2018) about surviving in a world inhabited by blind creatures with an acute sense of hearing, silence can mean various things: shock, suspense or concealment, but it’s also a baseline of daily life. So the question is: how should the SDH strategy change depending on the type of silence? Using [silence] all the time would hardly work.

For example, how do you subtitle “the sound of someone trying not to make a sound”? In the opening supermarket sequence, a family communicates entirely in sign language. There’s no music, and the ambient sound is minimal. Every tiny movement is controlled. Almost nothing is heard, but everything depends on it.

How would you handle this scene for SDH? Let us know! The link to the video is in the comments.

01/05/2026

Barely a day goes by without cybersecurity making it to the news. It affects everyone and if you work with highly valued content, such as films and series prior to their official release date, it will affect you even more.

This two-hour webinar with Martijn Grooten will focus on cybersecurity threats to AVT professionals and how to mitigate them.

Wednesday 3rd June, 4-6 pm UK time
Online
Free for Subtle members, £15 for non-members.

Sign up via the link in the comments!

24/04/2026

23/04/2026

Please help our colleague and interpreter Meenu Batra who was detained by ICE while travelling to a work assignment on 17 March. Details of how you can help can be found on the American Translators Association website:

Leading language organizations respond to the detention of interpreter Meenu Batra and are urging you to take action.