The latest news from Mint Pictures
Series 2 of Bushwhacked! – Mint Pictures’ smash hit kids TV series – has been sold to TV Ontario in Canada. The Australian Children’s TV Foundation, the international distributor of the format, confirmed this week that the second season of the 13-part series was sold to TV Ontario. The show’s first two seasons have already Read more about Bushwhacked! series 2 sold to Canadian network[…]
Bushwhacked! – the smash-hit wildlife meets Indigenous series for kids created by Mint Pictures – has won an award at the prestigious Prix Jeunesse International festival in Munich. The first episode from series II was selected to be screened at last week’s festival, and was nominated for the children’s jury in non-fiction (7-11). The top Read more about Bushwhacked! takes silver at prestigious awards[…]
Seven short clips produced by Mint Pictures/Kid Mac and narrated by award-winning actor Joel Edgerton will be screened on Fuel TV on June 5 at 9pm. The clips are preview and promotional content for the Red Bull Cape Fear event, a one-day big wave surfing event near Sydney that will draw the biggest names in Read more about Red Bull Cape Fear content to screen on Fuel TV[…]
‘Brilliant Creatures: Germaine, Clive, Barry & Bob,’ a two-part documentary for ABC and BBC, has been officially selected to screen at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival in June. The screening, which will be ahead of its transmission on BBC and ABC, will be held at the Crucible Theatre on June 10, and will be followed Read more about ‘Brilliant Creatures’ selected to screen at major doco festival[…]
Bushwhacked! nominated for Rockie Award Series II of Bushwhacked! – Mint Pictures’ smash-hit kids factual TV show – has been nominated for a BANFF Rockie Award in Canada. The nominations, released last week, pit Bushwhacked! against the BBC’s ‘Absolute Genius with Dick and Tom’ as well as two Swedish shows, a Danish show and a Read more about Bushwhacked! nominated for Rockie Award[…]
Mint Pictures has celebrated its one-year anniversary since it became independent of North One TV with news that Bushwhacked! – the kids TV format it created for ABC3 – is now screening in more than 44 countries across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and Australia. Ahead of MIP TV last week, series 2 of the Read more about Mediaweek newsletter showcases Mint Pictures year in review[…]
Ahead of its launch at MIPTV, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has acquired Mint Pictures’ action-packed adventure series Bushwhacked! (series II) from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). With the launch of series II at MIP TV, the popular series has proved to be a favourite with several international broadcasters, with sales of series 1 & 2 Read more about Discovery Asia acquires Bushwhacked! II[…]
Bushwhacked! – the smash hit kids’ TV series created by Mint Pictures – picked up a silver award at the Chicago International Film Festival and has been sold to a fifth international territory. Series I of the 13-part wildlife-meets-Indigenous culture show was awarded a silver plaque for best children’s TV series at the 2013 Chicago Read more about Bushwhacked! picks up silver award at Chicago[…]
Series II of Bushwhacked!, the smash hit kids TV format produced by Mint Pictures. The Indigenous-meets-wildlife kids TV series premiere is being heralded by rave reviews from media outlets. Featuring Wiradjuri boy Kamil Ellis as the new co-host alongside Kayne Tremills, Series II takes kids on another 13 high-octane, adrenalin-fueled adventures across Aboriginal Australia in search Read more about BUSHWHACKED! SERIES II WINS ASIAN TV AWARD[…]
Post-production has commenced on ‘Brilliant Creatures’, a two-part documentary series by Mint Pictures & Serendipity Productions that ABC TV Arts has commissioned as a co-production with BBC4. ‘Brilliant Creatures’ traces the lives of four iconic Australians – Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Robert Hughes – who each left Australia in the 1950s and 1960s Read more about Mint Pictures begins post-production on Howard Jacobson series on four Aussie icons[…]