Guest Speakers
Pablo Romero Fresco
Pablo Romero Fresco is a Professor of Translation and Accessibility at Universidade de Vigo (Spain) and Honorary Professor of Translation and Filmmaking at the University of Roehampton (UK). He is the author of the books Subtitling through Speech Recognition (Routledge) and Accessible Filmmaking (Routledge). He is the leader of the international research group GALMA, for which he is currently coordinating several international projects on media accessibility. He has worked as a consultant for institutions and companies such as the European Parliament, Ofcom, Netflix or the Spanish Film Academy, with which he has set up a training course to introduce accessible filmmaking and access coordination in the Spanish film industry. Pablo is also a filmmaker. His first short documentary, Joining the Dots (2012), was used by film schools, universities and film festivals all over the world to raise awareness about audio description. His first feature-length documentary, Where Memory Ends (2022), premiered at the London Spanish Film Festival and the Seminci Festival (Spain) and its accessible version has been screened at special events in New York, London and Montreal. In 2024 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the international subtitlers’ association SUBTLE for his lifelong impact on the areas of audiovisual translation and media accessibility around the world.

