What is your ownership model and who are key principals?
Mint is owned by Dan Goldberg (since 2013) and Craig Graham (since 2023). Jodi Boylan, award-winning director and producer, joined Mint in 2023 as Head of Factual & Entertainment. Jodi has worked in television for 25-plus years and specialises in unscripted content and Australian originals. Her most recent credits include, River Cottage Australia, War on Waste, Taboo, Osher Günsberg: A Matter of Life and Death and Great Australian Walks (Series 2).

Describe the genres you specialise in for production?
Mint’s DNA is unscripted original content – arts, sport, history, religion and culture forms a large part of our slate; Mint will continue to tell the very best stories in this space. The shape and form of our content will include feature-length films, premium documentaries, returnable factual entertainment shows and wide-audience appeal, talent-led programs. Mint collaborates with some of the most exciting names in Australian television, including Rachael Griffiths, Julia Zemiro, Anthony LaPaglia, Claudia Karvan, Gina Chick, Susie Youssef, Melissa Leong and Steph Tisdell.

What have been some of your notable credits and with which broadcasters/streamers?
Mint has received numerous awards and nominations. Notable credits include: Code of Silence, an expose into child sex abuse (Walkley Award for Best Documentary, ABC); The Bowraville Murders, a feature-length true crime documentary, which premiered at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival (SBS); Brilliant Creatures, which was nominated for a Logie, AACTA and Grierson Award (ABC & BBC), Finding the Archibald with Rachel Griffiths (ABC Arts), Great Southern Landscapes with Rachel Griffiths (ABC Factual), The Haka with John Eales (Discovery ANZ), Sky Blue: Inside Sydney FC (Paramount+) and Great Australian Walks (SBS) with Julia Zemiro.

Great Australian Walks was one of SBS’s break-out hits for 2023 and has been commissioned for a second series. Mint was also first to market in Slow TV in Australia with the launch of The Ghan (SBS), which accrued 715,000 viewers overnight when it aired in 2018, making it one of SBS’s highest-rating shows for that year.

What’s coming up on your slate and how many projects are in active development?

Mint has just been commissioned When The War is Over, a five-part arts/history series for the ABC presented by acclaimed actor and art-lover Rachel Griffiths, who deep-dives into how the arts have helped change our attitudes to our wars. We are also in post-production on Great Australian Road Trips, a six-part series for SBS featuring actor Claudia Karvan and comedian Steph Tisdell and food guru Melissa Leong and comedian Nazeem Hussain. In active development we have a feature documentary called The Pledge, a powerful Australian story of love and loss, and a history-mystery documentary called Hitler’s Hitmen: The Last Nazis Down Under. We are developing a six-part history series called Speechless, which explores the greatest minds behind iconic speeches in history. Finally, our first podcast series, commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, will drop in early 2025.

Do you receive unsolicited material, what are you looking for, how should people pitch projects?

We’re always searching for new ideas and love hearing from emerging directors and producers. And we love to collaborate. If you have a well-formed idea or exclusive access to a precinct or organisation, please say hello at info@mintpictures.com.au.