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At Mint Pictures

We love award-winning documentaries, entertainment, reality TV and sport. Most of all, we love ripper yarns. And we love working with some of the biggest names in showbiz.

When was the company founded?
Mint is a 100% Australian-owned company established in 2013.

Where are you based and which states did you film in for 24/25 productions?
We are based in Balmain, Sydney, NSW. In 2024/25, we filmed in NSW, ACT, VIC and TAS. We also filmed in Paris, Los Angeles, New York and Montreal.

How many full-time equivalent staff and how many does it expand to during production?

We have a core team of around 10 who work across all shows. This expands to between 20 and 40 people for individual productions. Our most recent feature-length production, The Jewish Nazi?, employed a cast and crew of more than 100. Great Australian Road Trips, which premieres later this year on SBS, employed a team of more than 40.

What is your ownership model and who are key principals?
Mint is owned by Dan Goldberg (since 2013) and Craig Graham (since 2023).

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 Rachel Griffiths, Julia Zemiro, Anthony LaPaglia, Claudia Karvan, Gina Chick, Susie Youssef, Melissa Leong, Nazeem Hussain 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+), Great Australian Walks (SBS) with Julia Zemiro, Gina Chick and Susie Youssef; and Great Australian Road Trips (SBS) with Claudia Karvan, Melissa Leong, Nazeem Hussain and Steph Tisdell.

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. We have produced four iterations of slow TV.

And we’ve just made our first podcast, Toy Soldier, produced with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which commissioned it from the feature documentary, The Jewish Nazi?.

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 and popular culture have helped change our attitudes to our five major wars. We have a feature documentary in the works 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 also developing a history series exploring the greatest minds behind iconic speeches in history, a political series on a major refugee crisis and a natural history project in Tasmania. And we’re working on a book based on one of our latest series.

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.

What We Do

We love making awesome videos.

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our works

GENRES

SPORT

Sport is in the DNA of Mint Pictures. That’s why for five years we worked at the Australian Open in Melbourne, producing all of Tennis Australia’s ancillary content, including two daily highlights shows, the official film, and as well as daily online content. But we also use sport to tell human stories – witness Pitch Battle, a 2015 documentary about the Palestinian football team, and Passport to Hope, a 2010 documentary about refugee kids whose integration into Australia has been softened by the world game. Then there’s the Paralympics, Surfing, Volleyball and Rally Driving; all of whom we have produced fast turn-around content for.

LIVE OBs

Under the stewardship of Managing Director Adam Kay, who has live directed at the Olympic Games, Mint produces many live Outside Broadcasts. Recent clients include the Commonwealth Games (Archery), Network Ten (World Rally Championship), Surfing Australia (Australian Boardriders Battle), Australian Paralympic Committee (Tri-Nations Wheelchair Rugby), Red Bull Media House (Red Bull Cape Fear) and Volleyball Australia (Asian Beach Volleyball Championships & Sydney World League). On location Daily Highlights and VT packages have all been produced by Mint Pictures under the supervision of Adam Kay.

CORPORATE

At the core of our business is quality story-telling, and corporate clients are no different. Mint has produced online content for Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson), Optus, KFC, Kellogg’s, TAB, Kia, Red Bull and others we can’t mention! With a creative team and in-house edit facilities, we are able to offer corporate clients a one-stop shop to deliver content at competitive rates.

DOCUMENTARY

Mint Pictures has produced a myriad of award-winning documentaries. From kids (Bushwhacked! for ABC3) to adults (The Pool for ABC) to exposes (Code of Silence for ABC), as well as blue-chip series (Brilliant Creatures for BBC/ABC & The Pool for ABC), (The Archibald & Food Fighter for Foxtel), (slow TV: The Ghan, The Indian Pacific, The Kimberley Cruise and The Chocolate Factory for SBS), Mint prides itself on documentary story-telling.

KIDS

At Mint we love kids content. Bushwhacked!, our flagship format, spanned three series and became a global smash hit, screening in over 40 countries worldwide, and bagging a slew of awards. Its younger sibling, Bushwhacked! Bugs, premiered in 2016 on ABC3. On Disney, Kim & Courtney’s Theory of Awesomeness has celebrated two seasons of high-octane science meets adrenaline! Currently we are working with ReachOut to produce content for kids struggling with mental health issues.

REALITY TV

At Mint we’ve fused Reality TV with our unashamed love of sport to produce three seasons of Football Superstar, with the winner receiving a contract with either Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory or Brisbane Roar. We also produced one season of Cricket Superstar, with cricket legend Allan Border as chief judge. The winner received a scholarship to Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence and a contract with the Victorian Bushrangers. Both of the Superstar formats screened on FOX8. In addition, we produced Wild Card, a one-hour reality show for Nine which followed four female rookie surfers, mentored by Layne Beachley, with the winner getting a ‘wild card’ into the 2015 Australian Open of Surfing in Manly.

ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment is at the core of what we do at Mint. Nothing showcases that more than Gus Worland: Marathon Man, an entertainment series for the A&E Channel on Foxtel that followed media personality Gus Worland’s battle to shed his kilos and run the New York Marathon. There, waiting at the finish line, was his best mate – Hugh Jackman. From a production on Snow White to a surfing show called Wild Card and a raft of productions for Red Bull, entertainment is the common denominator.

SPORT

Sport is in the DNA of Mint Pictures. That’s why for five years we worked at the Australian Open in Melbourne, producing all of Tennis Australia’s ancillary content, including two daily highlights shows, the official film, and as well as daily online content. But we also use sport to tell human stories – witness Pitch Battle, a 2015 documentary about the Palestinian football team, and Passport to Hope, a 2010 documentary about refugee kids whose integration into Australia has been softened by the world game. Then there’s the Paralympics, Surfing, Volleyball and Rally Driving; all of whom we have produced fast turn-around content for.

LIVE OBs

Under the stewardship of Managing Director Adam Kay, who has live directed at the Olympic Games, Mint produces many live Outside Broadcasts. Recent clients include the Commonwealth Games (Archery), Network Ten (World Rally Championship), Surfing Australia (Australian Boardriders Battle), Australian Paralympic Committee (Tri-Nations Wheelchair Rugby), Red Bull Media House (Red Bull Cape Fear) and Volleyball Australia (Asian Beach Volleyball Championships & Sydney World League). On location Daily Highlights and VT packages have all been produced by Mint Pictures under the supervision of Adam Kay.

CORPORATE

At the core of our business is quality story-telling, and corporate clients are no different. Mint has produced online content for Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson), Optus, KFC, Kellogg’s, TAB, Kia, Red Bull and others we can’t mention! With a creative team and in-house edit facilities, we are able to offer corporate clients a one-stop shop to deliver content at competitive rates.

DOCUMENTARY

Mint Pictures has produced a myriad of award-winning documentaries. From kids (Bushwhacked! for ABC3) to adults (The Pool for ABC) to exposes (Code of Silence for ABC), as well as blue-chip series (Brilliant Creatures for BBC/ABC & The Pool for ABC), (The Archibald & Food Fighter for Foxtel), (slow TV: The Ghan, The Indian Pacific, The Kimberley Cruise and The Chocolate Factory for SBS), Mint prides itself on documentary story-telling.

KIDS

At Mint we love kids content. Bushwhacked!, our flagship format, spanned three series and became a global smash hit, screening in over 40 countries worldwide, and bagging a slew of awards. Its younger sibling, Bushwhacked! Bugs, premiered in 2016 on ABC3. On Disney, Kim & Courtney’s Theory of Awesomeness has celebrated two seasons of high-octane science meets adrenaline! Currently we are working with ReachOut to produce content for kids struggling with mental health issues.

REALITY TV

At Mint we’ve fused Reality TV with our unashamed love of sport to produce three seasons of Football Superstar, with the winner receiving a contract with either Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory or Brisbane Roar. We also produced one season of Cricket Superstar, with cricket legend Allan Border as chief judge. The winner received a scholarship to Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence and a contract with the Victorian Bushrangers. Both of the Superstar formats screened on FOX8. In addition, we produced Wild Card, a one-hour reality show for Nine which followed four female rookie surfers, mentored by Layne Beachley, with the winner getting a ‘wild card’ into the 2015 Australian Open of Surfing in Manly.
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Dan Goldberg

Creative Director

Sarah Charley

Production Manager

Rachael Bicego

Accountant

Craig Graham

Executive Producer Owner

Dan Whelan

Producer

Get in touch

Address
36-38 Mort Street, Balmain NSW
Australia, 2041
Contact

info@mintpictures.com.au

P: +61 2 8569 2400

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