Matchbox Cinesub is our professional subtitling and audio describing arm. Our team has 18 years’ experience subtitling for access, alongside our 14+ years’ experience in film exhibition. As exhibitors, distributors and event producers ourselves, we know what’s required technically, creatively and in terms of scheduling and budget.
NB we do not use AI or synthetic voices in any of our work.
Since 2019, we’ve made descriptive subtitles (aka captions, SDH, HoH) for over 6,000 films and short films, working with film-makers, producers, distributors, festivals and venues, internationally. We specialise in helping film festivals make their full programmes accessible and in working with film-makers and artists to ensure their work sincerely meets the demands of access provision while preserving the integrity of their work. We pride ourselves on producing the best, exhibition-quality descriptive subtitles, no matter the initial context, ensuring our work can have a legacy in future use, in any number of contexts.
In 2020, Matchbox won a National Lottery Award in the Art/Culture/Film category, for efforts producing access materials for D/deaf audiences. We were shortlisted at the 2022 Big Screen Awards in the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative category and were named one Big Issue’s Changemakers 2023.
Feature films we’ve made descriptive subtitles and audio description for recently include Deaf (Sorda) (Eva Libertad, 2025), Bulk (Ben Wheatley, 2025), Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito, 2024) and The Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza, 2023).
Films we’ve made descriptive subtitles for include all 16 films in Curzon’s Michael Haneke collection (2025), Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021) and all 14 hours of Mark Cousins’ Women Make Film (2018).
For more information about our services, our rate card or even just to chat about subtitling, especially for access, email sean@matchboxcine.com.
Clients include: 4 Quarter Films, Abertoir Horror Festival, Access Cinema Ireland, Africa in Motion Film Festival, Alchemy Film & Arts, Anteroom, Anti-Worlds, ArtReach, Artes Mundi, Aya Films, BECTU, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, BFI, Birds’ Eye View, Caledonian Mumblecore, Cample Line, Cary Comes Home, Cat Strand, Christian Marclay, Cinebox, Cinema Despite, Cinema Rediscovered, Conic, Create Central, The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend, Creativs Label, Ctrl Shift Face, Culture Collective, Curate-It, Curzon, Disaster Plan, Doc’n Roll Film Festival, Document Film Festival, Dogwoof, DoMeRight Productions, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edwin Morgan Trust, EFN Short Film Festival, Elevator Productions, ElevenFiftyFive, Embassy Gallery, Enhancing Audio Description II, Encounters Film Festival, Epik Pictures, Exeter Phoenix, FACT (Liverpool), Ffilm Ifanc, Fig Films, Film City Futures, Film Distributors’ Association, Filmhouse (Edinburgh), Film Hub Scotland, Film Hub South East, Film Hub South West, Film London, Jeanie Finlay, Flatpack Festival, Forced Path Pictures, Forum Cinema Hexham, Freya Films, Fringe!, GAMIS, Glasgow Doors Open Day, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glass Onion Films, Gorilla Films, Halcyon Pictures, Havana Glasgow Film Festival, Hawkwood Productions, Hidden Pictures North, Hellmouth Pictures, HippFest, Hopscotch Films, Independent Cinema Office, Inverness Film Festival, Kato Pictures, A Kind Of Seeing, Larsa Films, Last Conker, Leeds International Film Festival, Leith Late, Little Stitch Productions, Live Cinema, Long Acre Arts, LUX, Macrobert Arts Centre, Manchester Animation Festival, Manipulate Festival, Margot Station, Matchbox Cineclub’s Weird Weekend (and all other Matchbox screenings), Maz Murray, Messy Films, MetFilm, MsMono, MUBI, National Library of Wales, Night Sky Films, Northern Heart Films, Now Films, Open City Documentary Festival, PaperEpic Productions, Pollyanna, Queen’s Film Theatre (Belfast), Quiddity Films, Rachel Maclean, Raucous Pictures, Reclaim the Frame, Rianne Pictures, Safar Film Festival, Samizdat Film Festival, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, SEON, Serious Facilities, Shetland Arts, Sixteen Films, Somesuch, Sovereign Films, Spike Island, Split Second Films, Square Eyes Film, Story Films, Take One Action Film Festival, Tape Collective, Tedium Entertainment, This Way Up, Tull Stories, University of Glasgow, Vertigo Films, Villon Films, Warwick Arts Centre, Watershed, We Are Parable, We Crip Film Festival, White Stag Films, Whitechapel Gallery, Winnipeg Film Group, Women Over Fifty Film Festival and Women X.
Check out a YouTube playlist of trailers with our descriptive subtitles here.