Best way to promote a movie that has several translations available ?

Hi guys,

I have a question and I thought you guys might be of good advice.

I am about to put a shortfilm online. It is a very dear film to me, it has done very well in festivals. In order to have a good audience, I thought of translating it in several languages (I have about 5).

The film is originally in FRENCH, and I have subtitles in English, Spanish, Chinese, Croatian and Portuguese.

The question I was wondering is: how am I going to reach people from those countries ? How are they going to know that the film is available in their language ?

- Shall I post one file with no subtitles, and upload 5 SRT to Youtube ?
- - In that case, does Youtube automatically choose the right subtitle for the right audience ?
- - Or shall I burn in the English subs, and add the 4 other as SRT Closed Captions (so you'd have English + Spanish for exemple) -> in that case it works full screen, but when the player is on, the 2nd language subs display in front of the English subs
- - Shall I announce those languages in the description ?

- Shall I post 5 different video files with the subs burned in ?
- - In that case, do I have to make efforts to promote 5 different files (which seem pretty impossible to me)

I hope my question was clear. And I hope you can help me out, because I'm really really confused !!!

Thank you !!!!!!!!
Manu

If you are aiming to make waves in the Chinese market, then you should probably consider uploading a Mandarin version to YouKu and/or iQiyi:

www.youku.com/

www.iqiyi.com/

Thank you! That's actually a very good tip.

No problem! You can set up a YouKu account in English by following these steps:

shanghaigingerguy.com/2009/02/10/how-to-...-account-in-english/