Movie-dubbing App Allows Families With Language Barriers to See ‘Cesar Chavez’ Together

*Found this story about technology dovetailing with the Cesar Chavez movie – had to share it with you. This new app translates movies as you watch them. VL

By Dan Solomon, FastCompany

There are 342 million people in the world who live in places where the language that they speak is not the dominant language. That doesn’t prevent a person from participating in society, of course. But it does make going to the movies less fun.

That’s something that Olenka Polak–a 20-year-old Harvard dropout and co-founder, along with her brother Adam, of the app myLingo, is determined to fix.\

MyLINGO officially launches March 28, and the first film it launches with is Pantelion Films’ Cesar Chavez, directed by Diego Luna and starring Michael Pena, America Ferrara, Rosario Dawson, and John Malkovich.

Launching with Cesar Chavez makes a fair amount of sense, too. The film was made in English, but the story of the Mexican-American labor rights organizer who founded the United Farm Workers has an obvious appeal to Mexican-Americans of all ages–including many who may not speak fluent English.

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[Photo courtesy of Canana/Pantelion Films]

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