Film production · 2026.09 – 2026.10

Feature film screenplay translation for a film production company

The situation

The work was translating a film production company's feature-length screenplays between Vietnamese and Korean.

Why they got in touch

The emotion and the jokes in each scene had to come through in the translation.

Part of the code of the translation check tool. It plants errors in a copy of the script on purpose and checks that every one is caught.

What we did

  • Before translating, we listed for each scene the emotions, laugh points and foreshadowing that had to survive.
  • A review agent read only the translation and rewrote that list from it, and we compared the two lists.
  • If a name or detail not in the original appeared in the translation, it was sent back automatically and translated again.
  • How characters address each other, and lines that repeat, were fixed before translating and kept the same to the end.
  • Final scripts went out as industry-standard PDFs and editable documents.

The result

  • We translated 4 feature films from start to finish. One had two versions, so five translations in all.
  • Four went from Vietnamese to Korean, and one from Korean to Vietnamese.
  • In all five, our own checks found 0 places where content not in the original had slipped in.

If your business is similar

If you need long documents carried into another language while keeping their tone and meaning, this case is the closest to yours.

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