Welcome To Side Door
About Us
Side Door Media Services, LLC, provides a range of media accessibility services, including closed captioning, translation, subtitling, and audio description, for use across a variety of content delivery platforms. Its clients include post-production facilities, networks, DVD authoring companies, and independent producers. Side Door’s work has been seen on the History Channel, PBS, the Smithsonian Networks, the National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, NetFlix titles, in museums and national parks nationwide, and on a wide range of DVD and Blu-ray consumer products.
Side Door Media Services, based in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, was established in 2010 by Jeff Helminiak, a 25-year veteran in the media accessibility field. Jeff’s prior experience includes numerous positions with the National Captioning Institute, including Director of Offline Production; Captioning Manager and Operations Manager at Henninger Media Services; and Offline Captioning Manager at Visual Audio Captioning.
Side Door Media Services is an Approved Vendor in the National Association of the Deaf’s Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP).