Rebels of Oz shortlisted for prestigious Grierson Award

Rebels of Oz, the BBC version of the Logie-nominated Brilliant Creatures, has been shortlisted for a Grierson Award in London. The two-part documentary following Australia’s four greatest cultural exports – Germaine Greer, Clive James, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes – is up against seven other finalists for the prestigious award for best arts documentary. Written Read more about Rebels of Oz shortlisted for prestigious Grierson Award[…]

Series 3 of Bushwhacked! premieres on ABC3

  Series 3 of Mint Pictures’ smash-hit kids format Bushwhacked! premiered on ABC3 on May 4. The award-winning series again follows Kayne and Kamil on 13 dangerous and sometimes deadly adventures across Outback Australia as they discover endangered species and learn about Aboriginal rites and rituals. Series 2 of Bushwhacked! won Asian Kids TV series Read more about Series 3 of Bushwhacked! premieres on ABC3[…]

Pitch Battle: Palestine’s Political Football Airs on ABC’s Foreign Correspondent

Pitch Battle follows the against-all-odds story of the Palestinian football team as they compete for the first time in the biggest football tournament in Asia. The Palestinians became the Cinderella story of world sport in 2014 when they defied 18 other teams in Asia to win the Challenge Cup – their first international trophy. But Read more about Pitch Battle: Palestine’s Political Football Airs on ABC’s Foreign Correspondent[…]

Mint Pictures nominated for two Logies

Mint Pictures received two nominations for Logies on Sunday – for ‘Brilliant Creatures’ and ‘Bushwhacked!’. ‘Brilliant Creatures’, a two-part prime-time series written and presented by Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson, followed the meteoric rise of four of Australia’s greatest cultural exports: Germaine Greer, Clive James, Barry Humphries and the late Robert Hughes. Screened last year Read more about Mint Pictures nominated for two Logies[…]

‘Bushwhacked!’ wins Asian TV award for best kids show

Mint Pictures won the best children’s program for ‘Bushwhacked!’ (series 2) at the Asian TV Awards in Singapore on Thursday night. ‘Bushwhacked!’ fended off strong competition from ‘Nowhere Boys’ and ‘Worst Year of My Life, Again’, two big budget dramas, to take home the gong. The Asian TV Awards are the Asian TV industry’s “most Read more about ‘Bushwhacked!’ wins Asian TV award for best kids show[…]

Mint Wins Walkley Award for Best Doco

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_vsvh-LsAM&w=560&h=315] ‘Code of Silence’, a documentary on child sexual abuse inside a religious institution in Melbourne, won the Walkley Award for Best Documentary in 2014. A co-production between Mint Pictures and Identity Films, Dan Goldberg (producer) and Danny Ben-Moshe (director) received the prestigious prize on Thursday night at the annual awards ceremony in Sydney. Read more about Mint Wins Walkley Award for Best Doco[…]

‘Brilliant Creatures’ Nominated For Best Doco

‘Brilliant Creatures’, the two-part ABC series co-produced by Mint Pictures, has been nominated for the AACTA award for best documentary. Hosted by Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson, ‘Brilliant Creatures’ traces the lives of four of Australia’s greatest cultural exports and iconoclasts – satirist Barry Humphries, feminist Germaine Greer, broadcaster and poet Clive James and art Read more about ‘Brilliant Creatures’ Nominated For Best Doco[…]

Bushwhacked! nominated for Kidscreen

Series 2 of Bushwhacked!, the smash hit kids TV format by Mint Pictures, has won more recognition, this time being shortlisted as a finalist in the prestigious Kidscreen Awards (for best kids non-animated or mixed series). Bushwhacked! is up against another Australian production, World Animal Championships (Blacklab Entertainment), and Roy (JAM Media). Judges will soon Read more about Bushwhacked! nominated for Kidscreen[…]