Portable Film Festival

Team

Andrew Apostola

Co Founder and Creative Director

Contact: Andrew@portablecontent.com

Andrew Apostola is one of Australia's leading cross media producers. With Simon Goodrich, he is the co-founder of both the Portable Film Festival and Portable Content, the independent digital studio behind the festival that specialises in innovative cross platform projects, ideas and business models, incorporating web applications, video sharing tools, and socially networked interfaces. He is a resident mentor for the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production (LAMP), Australia's pre-eminent cross media workshop initiative, which develops new interactive offerings for Australia's largest media organisations including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Ninemsn. He also developed the Portable Screen Academy, an incubator and training academy for emerging interactive creatives that now has major presence in Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. Prior to working in the online space, Andrew worked as a manager and producer for a range of community broadcasters and media providers and is well known for successfully launching the Student Youth Network alongside Portable Content co-founder Simon Goodrich in Melbourne in 2003.

 

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Simon Goodrich

Co Founder and Managing Director

Contact: Simon@portablecontent.com

Simon Goodrich is co-founder and General Manager of the Portable Film Festival, and of Portable Content. He has over a decade of experience in the community media industry in Australia, and is widely known for his work as President and Manager of the Student Youth Network in Melbourne. Simon led SYN FM's successful application for a full time community broadcasting licence in 2001, and established the SYN FM school training program. He has served as a board member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, the industry's national peak body, and conducted a number of successful national consultations to Federal Government, attaining increased support for broadcast training initiatives and the promotion of Australian music. Prior to Portable, Simon held the position of Business Development Manager of Diversitat, a community organisation in Geelong, Victoria. He is currently President of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, representing over 700 companies in the online media, advertising and interactive space; in 2008 he was recognised as one of Australia's leading entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by Anthill Magazine.

 

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Kate Elton

Marketing and Relationships Manager

Contact: kate@portablefilmfestival.com

Kate is a New Zealand import and marketing and event management guru. She has contributed heavily to the community and not-for-profit sectors including work for Oxfam Australia, and the Darfur Australia Network. Her passion for film has seen her hold producer and production assistant roles for music videos, live event shoots, and the New Zealand feature film 'Big Time Love'. Kate is responsible for building and maintaining key relationships and partnerships for the Portable Film Festival. She gets her kicks from the cultural and community impact of leading edge new media projects and platforms, and is counting the days until the next SXSW. She has a degree in psychology and film, television and media.

 

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Al Cossar

Program Director

Contact: al@portablefilmfestival.com

Al's role as Program Director is informed by a vast range of experience in the film industry. He has worked as a post-production supervisor, as an editor for celluloid film and broadcast television, as a teacher of editing at the University of Auckland and as a co-manager and programmer of film festivals and events around Melbourne. Al studied film editing in Portland, Oregon, where he had the good fortune to learn from notable film cutters Nick Edgar (Roger Corman), and Jaime Fowler (James Cameron). He is also a member of the Australian Film Critics' Association, and a frequent contributor of reviews and opinion to InFilm Australia. He likes films quite a lot, and would prefer to be watching one ... right about ... now. He enjoys shouting expletives at render bars, spilling his Yum Cha, and growing beards in the wintertime.

 

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Courtney Kim

Assistant Multimedia Designer

Contact: courtney@portablecontent.com

Courtney Kim was born in Germany, grew up in south Korea, and is currently working as a Multimedia Designer at Portable Content. She is inspired by all kinds of creatives: musicians, artists, designers, photographers, engineers, programmers, scientists, street artists, biologists, psychologists, movie directors, game players, dancers, walkers, runners, lovers, haters, and you. She hates bad smells, needles, and orange flavour candies. She likes drawing, making out on purple grass fields, not drinking milk, painting on her white cat, and breaking people's heart.

 

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Narinda Reeders

Lead Developer

Contact: Narinda@portablecontent.com

Narinda is an internationally exhibited new media artist and a bona-fide nerd. She studied computer science in the dark ages, before hotmail had been invented and the HTML seemed revolutionary. Back then being a computer nerd was REALLY uncool: connoting awkward, weird, culturally irrelevant people and projects, and involving many tasteless jokes about the Unix command "finger". Thankfully, Narinda also obtained an honours degree in Photography from the Victorian College of the Arts. Her photographs and interactive installations have seen her exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently as part of Experimenta national touring exhibitions, and at the International Symposium for Electronic Art in Singapore, 2008. Narinda quit her corporate day job when the internet started getting interesting again, and came to work for Portable. It is creative new media projects that most excite her, and allow her to be culturally relevant and big time nerdy at the same time.

 

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