Mint Productions
Address:
Mint Dublin: 205 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6, Republic of Ireland
Mint Belfast: 13 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast BT9 6AW, Northern Ireland
Telephone:
Dublin: +353-1-491 3333 Belfast: + 44-28-90 240555
Fax:
+353 1 491 3334
Website: http://
www.mint.ie
Email: info@mint.ie
Personnel:
Steve Carson - Exec Producer
Miriam O'Callaghan - Exec Producer
Dhruba Bannerjee - Head of Production
Niamh Linnie - Production Assistant/Researcher
Lena Ferguson - Exec Producer (Belfast)
Nuala Boylan - Assistant Producer (Belfast)
Suzanne McMillen - Researcher (Belfast)
Company Description:
Mint Productions is a factual programmes production house with offices in Dublin and Belfast. Over the past six years Mint has provided high-quality documentary films and series to RTE, the BBC, Channel 4 and TG4, with international sales to Discovery Networks Europe.
Mint's founders are award-winning broadcasters with an extensive track record in both British and Irish television.
Miriam O'Callaghan began her career on "This is your Life", she now anchors RTE's current affairs show "Prime Time". She has worked as a reporter and producer on "Newsnight", "This Week", "Kilroy" and "Tonight".
Steve Carson is a BBC-trained producer/director, with sixteen years experience in broadcasting. His work includes series as diverse as "Rough Guides" and "Panorama" and documentaries from "Pearse" to "All the Queen's Men".
Mint is currently producing a diverse slate of factual programmes for broadcast in 2007
Genre:
Documentary
Facilities/Services:
AVID Adrenaline offline/online available for dry hire
Languages:
English
Pre Production:
"Dublin Babylon"
1 x 52min RTE
Current Production:
"Heir Hunters"
15 x 45min BBC1 Network
"Face Value"
1 x 52min RTE
"David's Story"
1 x 52min RTE
"Jack Doyle"
1 x 52min BCI/RTE
"Surgeons"
4 x 45min RTE
"Let's Talk"
10 x 59min BBC NI
Previous Production:
"Aiken" 2006
1 x 52min RTE
"Junior Doctors" 2006
4 x 40min RTE
"Who Stole the World Cup?" 2006
1 x 49min Channel 4
"1916: The Man Who Lost Ireland" 2006
1 x 52min RTE
"Our Lady's Hospice" 2006
1 x 30min Our Lady's Hospice Ltd.
"Flann O'Brien: The Lives of Brian" 2006
1 x 52min RTE
"Dear Frankie" 2005/6
1 x 52min RTE
"You Thought You Knew...The Border" 2005
1 x 39min BBC NI
"Pope Benedict: The Rise of Ratzinger" 2005
1 x 52min RTE
"Return to Our Lady's" 2005
6 x 26min RTE
"Haughey" 2005
4 x 52mins RTE
"Spit on me, Dickie!" 2005
1 x 50mins RTE
"Let's Talk" 2004-present
10 x 59min BBC NI
"Prime Time Investigates - Migrant Workers" 2004
1 x 52mins RTE
"Shutdown" 2004
1 x 50min BBC NI
"Family Fortune - De Valera's Irish Press" 2004
1 x 52min RTE
"Making Babies" 2004
3 x 40min RTE
"Legal Eagles' 2004
3 x 40min RTE
"De Lorean" 2004
1 x 59min BBC 4/BBC NI
"Who Kidnapped Shergar?" 2004
1 x 50min Channel 4/RTE
"Shutdown" 2004
1 x 49min BBC NI
"Unit 8 Update" 2003
1 x 28min RTE
"Our Lady's" 2003
6 x 28min RTE
"Emmet" 2003
1 x 52min RTE/Duchas
"Crash" 2003
1 x 52min RTE
"Fine Gael" 2003
3 X 52min RTE
"Profile: Abu Hamza" 2003
1 X 28min BBC 4
"Profile: Paul Seawright" 2003
1 X 28min BBC 4
"Profile: Matthew Bourne" 2002
1 X 28min BBC4
"An Decay" 2003
1 x 52min TG4/Irish Film Board
"Unit 8" 2002
4 x 28min RTE
"Eamonn Andrews" 2002
1 x 52min RTE
"All the Queen's Men" 2002
1 x 52min RTE/Irish Film Board
"Profile: Berlusconi" 2002
1 x 28min BBC4/BBC2
"Profile: Sharpton" 2002
1 x 28min BBC4
"The Two Day Coup" 2002
1 x 40min BBC4
"Profile: Mary Robinson: The Outsider" 2002
1 x 28min BBC4
"Pearse - Fanatic Heart" 2001
1 x 52min RTE/Discovery Civilisation
"Ireland's Own" 2001
1 x 52min RTE
"The Celtic Myth" 2001
2 x 28min TG4
"Bald" 2001
1 x 28min TG4
Awards:
IFTA 2007 - Best Documentary - Flann O'Brien: The Lives of Brian - Ronan O Muirthile/Maurice Sweeney
IFTA 2003 - TV Personality of the Year - Miriam O'Callaghan
ESB Political Journalist of the Year 2003 - Niamh Sammon/Steve Carson - for 'Fine Gael: A Family at War'
ESB Current Affairs Documentary 1999 - Steve Carson - for 'South Africa'
Royal Television Society 1994 - Steve Carson - for 'Cockfighting'
