Work with Pilar Dueñas!

I have a background in science and literature, so when I passed the Netflix subtitling text in 2017, I knew I had found my passion.
I’ve always thought that a good translation is like a good portrait, and the process of translating is very much an artistic one.
But subtitle translation encapsulates its own challenges and intractability. The translator must juggle several props in the air, and do her best to lose as little information as possible. With subtitles, this is compounded by space or character restrictions, and inevitably tradeoffs have to be made.
A good subtitler is above all a master alchemist, able to distil a sentence into its essence while idiomatically conveying all relevant information.

Regarding my work ethic, is very simple: errors are not OK.
As a society, we have become so accustomed to relying on technology and apps that we think this can be smoothly rolled out to translation and subtitling. In my experience, spell-checkers make the brain less vigilant. Instead, I carry out two reviews: one for general meaning and continuity and a second reading looking at each word in isolation so that no typos slip through.
I am also fully bilingual, so I am able to capture nuances in the source language and render idioms correctly.
I specialise in science and political documentaries, period pieces, and that most elusive of creatures—comedy translation. I have a knack for puns and rhymes and the niceties of English and Spanish grammar.

In short, my passion for translation is what shines through in my work.