Jūlija Rastorgujeva

Jūlija Rastorgujeva is an audio describer, audiovisual translator, researcher, and university lecturer based in Riga, Latvia. She is a PhD researcher specialising in audio description for silent film and has been working in audio description for approximately six years across film, theatre, museums, and cultural accessibility projects.
She is a co-founder of the Latvian Association of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility (LATPA), established to support professional standards, training, research, and collaboration in audiovisual translation and media accessibility in Latvia.
Her work combines professional audio description practice with research and translator training, with particular interests in film audio description, silent cinema, cultural accessibility, and AD education.