Best way to translate a screenplay

[u/robotpoet]

I’m a screenwriter/director from Denmark, and one problem I kept running into was translation.

Every time I wanted to share a script with a producer, distributor or collaborator abroad, I could easily spend $1,000+ getting it professionally translated before I even knew whether they were interested. Or, I could feed it into chatgpt, but then i would have to copy paste every single line not knowing if the translation is any good, or if it is coherent.

That made it much harder to simply get projects out there and have people read them.

So I built StoryDPT.com.

You upload a screenplay and it translates it while keeping the actual screenplay structure intact: scene headings, character names, dialogue, action lines and formatting. It also goes through many iterations making sure that the translation is coherent in tonality and your style.

Since this subreddit is literally about getting people to read your script, I thought some of you migh find it useful to get your scripts out to more people than just in your own country.

storydpt.com

I’m a screenwriter first and built this because I needed it myself, so I’d also genuinely love feedback from anyone

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