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Andrew Apostola
Co Founder and Creative Director
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Andrew's background lies predominantly in community media, working for a range of broadcasters
and media providers in Australia and he is well known for successfully launching the
Student Youth Network alongside co-founder Simon Goodrich in Melbourne in 2003.
The network is the largest youth media organisation in Australia, operating a full-time
terrestrial radio license and broadcasting on television and the web.
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Simon Goodrich
Co Founder and Managing Director
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Simon Goodrich is co-founder and General Manager of the Portable Film Festival.
He has over a decade of experience working within the community media industry in Australia.
He is well known in the community for his work as President and Manager of the Student Youth Network in Melbourne.
Simon founded Portable Content in 2005 alongside Andrew Apostola, the Australian-based
digital studio that designs and manages the portablefilmfestival.com project.
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Kate Elton
Marketing and Relationships Assistant
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Having completed her degree majoring in Psychology and Film Television and Media,
Kate made the move across the ditch from New Zealand to Melbourne. She can most often
be found, baking cupcakes, drinking wine, reading or dodging birds. She is passionate
about new media and looking forward to seeing what happens next.
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Yoanes Koesno
Web Developer
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As a Software Engineer graduate from University of Melbourne and with solid experience in theatre,
Yoanes is furthering his study in digital film, pursuing his dream of being a filmmaker.
His interest both in programming and filmmaking was what drew him to develop this unique web project.
He has developed quite a number of websites for various clients and is currently completing his film course
at SAE College.
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Courtney Kim
Assistant Multimedia Designer
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Courtney Kim was born in Germany, grew up in south Korea, and is currently working as a
Multimedia Designer at Portable Content. Things that inspire her would be 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, ugly people, needles, and orange flavour candies.
She likes drawing, being cute, having sex on purple grass fields, not drinking milk,
painting on her white cat, and breaking people's heart.
Courtney Kim and
Her Naughty Lips are waiting you to be her flower.
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Becky Harkins-Cross
Assistant Programme Coordinator
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Becky is currently completing her final semester of a Bachelor of Media and Communications
at the University of Melbourne, majoring in journalism and cinema studies. When she's not
marvelling at Andrew's tight jeans, she also moonlights at music licensing firm Level Two
and contributes to various independent Melbourne publications.
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Andrzej Gwizdalski
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Andrzej is doing his PhD research in cross-cultural visual communication at the University of Melbourne.
As an intern with the Portable Film Festival, he is responsible for international contacts and
assistance with content management. He is very enthusiastic about events like
the Portable Film Festival Festival because this is the future of global communication happening right now!
Andrzej has extensive international experience in photography, business administration, acting,
journalism and filmmaking. He likes hot spicy wine and winter in the mountains.
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Narinda Reeders
Web Developer
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After many many years of denial Narinda has finally given in to her inner nerd and allowed it
to take pride of place next to her arty self. Narinda 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. You were awkward, weird, culturally
irrelevant and made tasteless jokes about the Unix command "finger". So Narinda completed
an honors degree in Photography at the VCA and began exhibiting photographs and interactive installations.
Her corporate day job kept her tech skills going but never really got her excited.
Then things started to get interesting for closet nerds like herself.
The internet turned into a bona-fide, culturally powerful, social space.
This stuff gets her excited and the best part is, she can be culturally relevant and nerdy at the same time.
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Nick Argyriou
Copywriter
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Copywriter
With a strong background in film and media Nick has moved through the ranks as a
writer/copywriter in Melbourne with a keen eye for detail and a steady ease. Study and
professional experience have fused together since early 2000 to bring him up to speed on
things. Whether it be finishing up arts and film/media degrees, graduate and post graduate
university in media and communications, or earning a crust as an advertising consultant,
advertising copywriter, freelance pop-culture writer and current music journalist for both
Rhythms and Inpress Magazine, Nick takes the word to the streets every time.
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Alex Yates
Web Developer
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Originally from rural NSW, Alex came to Melbourne to pursue his interests in programming.
When he's not planning his next scuba dive, sailing, playing bass guitar, or caring for his
many weird and wonderful animals, he's in the process of completing his computer science degree.