Alastair Cole - International Translation Day 2017 (Colours of the Alphabet Film)

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Hi, my name is Alastair Cole.

I'm a documentary film maker
based here in Scotland,

and it's a pleasure to be here today

to celebrate
International Translation Day 2017,

and to talk to you about Amara as well,

which is, of course, a wonderful platform
for subtitling and translation.

As part of my role as a filmmaker,

subtitling and translation
is such a pivotal part to what I do.

Specially at the moment,
the film I'm making is about languages,

the subject of language,

including a recent project,
a feature documentary,

"The Colors of the Alphabet".

which I'm going to talk
a little bit about now,

why translation and subtitling
have been so pivotal and so fundamental

to how this film is made.

Those who were with me in it,

without them I wouldn't have been able
to made this film.

The film is a feature documentary,

it released last year
at the Glasglow Festival,

and it's been turned around
festivals and cinemas

in the UK, Europe and Africa,
since then.

It's the story of three children
in a village in Zambia,

in a village called [ ]

It's a story of language and politics
in education, if you want, and childhood.

It follows the children for 12 months
at their first year of school.

And there's a school in the community,

where the community speaks one language
- [ ] -

the region and the teacher speak
another language, called [ ],

and they all learn English, because
English is the official language of Zambia