‘The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia’ aired on SBS on Easter Saturday, April 11 at 7.30pm across three decadent hours as viewers watch the Willy Wonka-inspired slow process of making Easter eggs and bunnies – from paddock to market.
The documentary, directed by Mint’s MD Adam Kay, was filmed over eight days in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria.
It opens in sugarcane fields of north Queensland before taking in a dairy farm in northern Tasmania and ends up at the Cadbury factory in Melbourne, where all the raw ingredients converged earlier this year to produce 14.6 million Easter bunnies and 477 million Easter eggs for the 2020 festival.
This is the fourth slow TV episode made by Mint for SBS and comes on the heels of The Ghan, The Indian Pacific and The Kimberley Cruise.
The Chocolate Factory was filmed by Nathan Barlow and Bruno Kataoka, produced and written by Dan Whelan and Dan Goldberg. Sound recordist was Richard Boxhall. It was scored by Caitlin Yeo and Amanda Brown, and edited by Nathan Mulready (offline) and Rob Sarroff (online).
