Gabriela Passos

Experience

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  Toronto International Film Festival

  Jun 2003 - Sept 2003

  Brazil/Latin America and Spanish Coordinator (Brazilian films and guests)

  • Monitored the movement of guest artists

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  Toronto International Film Festival

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2004

  Latin America and Spanish Coordinator

  • Partnered with a programmer, as well as advertising and festival services to coordinate festival publications • Monitored the movement of guest artists

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  Deluxe Digital Studios

  Jun 2005 - Dec 2010

  Senior Translation Resources, Training Specialist and Brazilian Portuguese Language Specialist

  • Create and update Brazilian Portuguese style guidelines;• Perform quality control checks on subtitle files in a variety of languages;• Edit, fix timing and transcribe from Brazilian Portuguese audio to subtitles on screen;• Translate subtitles and proofread Brazilian Portuguese translations;• Implement corrections to Brazilian Portuguese subtitles;• Respond to translation and procedure-related queries from freelance translators, as well as internal and external clients (Disney, Sony, Warner, Paramount);• As part of the Training and feedback department, monitor the freelance translators with regard to the quality of the work and their adherence to Deluxe Media procedures and language guidelines;• Train translators from various languages on Deluxe proprietary software; • Train client translators on file approval procedures. On-site training in Brazil at the client’s regional offices (Disney and Sony). Show less

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  Self-Employed

  Sept 2010 - now

  Independent Translator - English-to-Portuguese
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  McGill University

  Jul 2012 - Jul 2014

  Accreditation and Administrative Coordinator
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  Escolinha de Português de Montreal

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

  Brazilian culture and Portuguese language teacher for children
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  Learnship

  Mar 2015 - now

  Portuguese as a Second Language Trainer (Virtual environment)
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  Valnet

  Jan 2018 - Feb 2022

  International Channel Optimizer (Little Angel & Little World Português)

  • Channel management of the Brazilian/Portuguese channels• Drove growth from zero to 14 million subscribers • Adaptation, Translation and Localization• Analytics of competitor’s data, copyright infringement surveillance, reports to legal• Thumbnail and title optimization/Content selection and scheduling• Social media marketing, community development and engagement, stories • YouTube publishing tools, creating metadata (catchy titles, description, SEO, keywords, tags, thumbnails, and playlists)• Dubbing studio and talent production coordination, casting, supervision, feedback and QC• Gathering and organizing dubbing material for 11 international channels (instrumental and SFX audios, scripts) • Coordination between music studios, editors, team leaders and colleagues• Onboarding and thorough training of new International Channel ManagersAchievements:-Increase channel subscribers from 625 to 14+ million.-Increase daily channel views from 254 to 10M.-Produced the international version and published over 300 videos on YouTube. Show less

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  Moonbug Entertainment

  Jun 2018 - Dec 2022

  Senior International Channel Manager at moonbug

  ***Little Angel PO Kids Entertainment was acquired by moonbug in March 2022

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  Descriptive Video Works

  Jan 2023 - now

  Project Manager