About us
Andrea Tendero
Andrea Tendero graduated in Translation and Interpreting at Universitat d’Alacant and holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Translation from the Universidade de Vigo in which, for her final project, she created the Accessible Filmmaking database. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication at the Universidade de Vigo to continue her research focused on creative media accessibility.
Ana Tamayo Masero
Ana Tamayo is a researcher and a teacher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She is a member of the research group TRALIMA/ITZULIK and collaborates with TRAMA y GALMA. She has been the main creator of the Sign Language database, in which members of TRAMA and GALMA have also collaborated. Her research interests focus in audiovisual accessibility and minority languages. She is especially interested in knowing more about accesibility in Basque and the audiovisual production in sign languages.
Pablo Romero Fresco
Pablo Romero Fresco is an Associate Professor at Universidade de Vigo (Spain) and Honorary Professor of Translation and Filmmaking at the University of Roehampton (London, UK). He is the author of the books Subtitling through Speech Recognition: Respeaking (Routledge), Accessible Filmmaking (Routledge) and Transformative Media Accessibility (Routledge, forthcoming). He is the leader of the international research centre GALMA, for which he is currently coordinating several international projects on accessibility and where he works as accessibility consultant for institutions and companies like the European Parliament and Netflix. Pablo is also a filmmaker. His first documentary short film, Joining the Dots (2012), was used by Netflix as well as film schools around Europe to raise awareness about audio description. His documentary, Where memory ends (2022) has just been released and it was selected for the London Spanish Film Festival (London) and the SEMINCI (Spain).