Elio Zarmati

International Subtitling and Dubbing

Consultant

  Elio Zarmati is an international dubbing and subtitling consultant, advising film studios and producers in their efforts to distribute programs in foreign languages in movie theaters, home video, DVD, and streaming video.

He also serves as chief consultant for VoxWorks Technologies, a startup software company currently developing a voice-conversion process designed to morph any voice in another voice. Aimed at the multi-language dubbing and at the same-language looping (ADR) industries, VoxWorks Technologies’ ReelVoice™ is poised to revolutionize post-production processes all over the world. As acting CEO, Mr. Zarmati is developing strategies for the deployment and marketing ReelVoice™ and advising on the software’s design and functionality.

With over 30 years of experience in post-production and distribution, Elio Zarmati has been instrumental in developing industry-wide processes, standards and software for the release of subtitled and dubbed films in the theatrical and home video fields, particularly in the emerging DVD format.

Until July 2000, Mr. Zarmati was President and CEO of Gelula & Co., Inc., a film subtitling company he purchased in 1992 and turned into the world's premier provider of subtitles and dubbing services for motion pictures, DVD and home video releases in some 34 languages. By the time Mr. Zarmati sold the company to SDI Media Group in mid-2000, annual revenue had gone from $475,000 to over $12 million and was growing at a very brisk pace.

Highly experienced in the area of entertainment content, Elio Zarmati has enjoyed a career as a director, writer, producer and editor of motion pictures and television films in Europe and the United States. His credits include directing a Duke Ellington Special for television and several documentaries and public affairs programs, writing motion picture and television screenplays and producing the award-winning feature film Winter. He served as editor of the NBC miniseries A Woman Called Moses and as supervising editor of the CBS Movie Badge of the Assassin. He was also a contributing writer on The Television Book and several film trade magazines.

Raised in Europe, Mr. Zarmati is a graduate of the French Lycée in London, England and of the University of Paris (Sorbonne). While still at the Sorbonne, he joined the staff of the NBC News Paris Bureau as a reporter and covered the student uprisings all over Europe.

Elio Zarmati is a member of the Writers Guild and the Motion Pictures Editors Guild. He serves on the Advisory Board of the International Rescue Committee and on the Board of Directors of the Levantine Cultural Center.

Contact Information:

Elio Zarmati
P. O. Box 877
Ojai, CA 93024
805-640-9240
805-640-8602 fax
ez@zarmati.com

 

This page was last updated on 06/18/07

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