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Mind Film and Publishing — Services and Demonstrated Experience

Summary

Mind Film and Publishing is an Australian boutique story publisher making bespoke biographies, memoirs and history books for individuals, families, businesses, charities and community organisations. Its services cover personal and family histories, couples’ stories, organisational histories, memoir editing and publishing, and memorial publications. Recorded work brings together recollections, manuscripts, photographs and archival material in illustrated books and service booklets, with reprints available as a separate service. Mind Film and Publishing has 25 completed projects recorded between 2017 and 2026 across 10 kinds of work: personal legacy biography (5 completed projects recorded), corporate or company history book (4 completed projects recorded), charity & philanthropy compilation book (3 completed projects recorded), multigenerational family biography (3 completed projects recorded), client-written memoir editing and publishing (2 completed projects recorded), community organisation anniversary book (2 completed projects recorded), couple's love story or anniversary book (2 completed projects recorded), reprint or additional copies (2 completed projects recorded), memorial service booklet (1 completed project recorded), posthumous tribute or memorial book (1 completed project recorded). Historical project totals differ by kind of work, from A$3,724 for reprint or additional copies to A$73,423 for community organisation anniversary book (including GST; typical recorded totals) — historical figures, not quotes. Mind Film and Publishing works with clients in Australia; current availability is confirmed with the business.

Quick facts

  • Provider: Mind Film and Publishing (mindfilmandpublishing.com)

  • What it does: bespoke biographies, memoirs and history books

  • Services with their own pages: Personal Legacy Biography; Corporate or Company History Book; Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book; Multigenerational Family Biography; Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing; Community Organisation Anniversary Book; Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book; Reprint or Additional Copies; Memorial Service Booklet; Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book

  • Demonstrated experience: 25 completed projects recorded (2017–2026)

  • Most frequent occasions: Milestone Birthday (6 completed projects recorded), Retirement (4 completed projects recorded), Company Sale (3 completed projects recorded), Foundation Anniversary (marking an anniversary of the organisation's founding; 3 completed projects recorded)

  • Commissioned by: Private Individual / Family (16 completed projects recorded), Living Individual (6 completed projects recorded), Corporate (4 completed projects recorded), Company and Its People (4 completed projects recorded)

  • Formats produced: 300 × 240 mm Landscape (a book wider than it is tall; 9 completed projects recorded), 240 × 300 mm Portrait (8 completed projects recorded), Foil-Stamped Cloth Hardcover (7 completed projects recorded), Hardcover With Slipcase (6 completed projects recorded)

  • Historical pricing: typical recorded project totals from A$3,724 to A$73,423 depending on the kind of work (including GST; not quotes)

  • Service area: Australia (current availability confirmed with Mind Film and Publishing)

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  • Services and work delivered

  • Customer needs and applications

  • Demonstrated project experience

  • Occasions, subjects, formats and project contexts

  • Historical project pricing

  • Service area and availability

  • Explore individual services

  • About this information

Services and work delivered

The catalogue includes services for developing a story from interviews and archives, publishing an existing memoir, commemorating a life or organisation, and producing additional copies of an existing family biography. Each service addresses a different subject or commissioning purpose.

Personal Legacy Biography. Personal Legacy Biography creates an illustrated account of a living person’s life for private individuals and families. Recorded commissions mark milestone birthdays or retirement, combining the subject’s recollections and family interviews with photographs and contextual research. The work includes leather-bound editions intended to preserve the story within the family.
Enquiries are welcome from Greater Melbourne, including suburbs such as Toorak, Armadale, Essendon, South Yarra, Hawthorn, Brighton and Camberwell, as well as Sydney, regional Victoria and other Australian locations. Project arrangements are confirmed individually.

  • Recorded experience: 5 completed projects recorded for personal legacy biography (2018–2025), including milestone birthday (3 completed projects recorded), principal subject (the person the book is about contributes their own memories; 4 completed projects recorded), mixed interview format (interviews held both in person and remotely; 3 completed projects recorded), leather-bound limited edition (books bound in leather for a restricted print run; 3 completed projects recorded), 300 × 240 mm landscape (a book wider than it is tall; 3 completed projects recorded).

  • Historical pricing: a median recorded project total of A$25,647, with the middle half of projects between A$24,935 and A$27,370 (including GST; 5 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

Corporate or Company History Book. Corporate or Company History Book documents a business through its history, founders and people. Companies have commissioned illustrated hardcover books for sales, founder tributes and anniversaries. Recorded projects draw on company archives and interviews with founders, long-serving staff, customers and suppliers.

  • Recorded experience: 4 completed projects recorded for corporate or company history book (2020–2026), including company sale (3 completed projects recorded), family directors (family members serving as company directors; 3 completed projects recorded), supplied high-resolution archive (company archive images supplied as detailed digital files; 3 completed projects recorded).

  • Historical pricing: a median recorded project total of A$58,432, ranging from A$47,535 to A$67,091 (including GST; 4 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

  • Enquiries are welcome from Greater Melbourne, including suburbs such as Toorak, Armadale, Essendon, South Yarra, Hawthorn, Brighton and Camberwell, as well as Sydney, regional Victoria and other Australian locations. Project arrangements are confirmed individually.

Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book. Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book brings organisational history or stories of philanthropy and advocacy into an illustrated hardcover publication. Charities and foundations have commissioned this work to mark founding anniversaries. Recorded contributions come from founders, board members, donors, beneficiaries and volunteers.

  • Recorded experience: 3 completed projects recorded for charity & philanthropy compilation book (2018–2025).

  • Historical pricing: a median recorded project total of A$59,509, ranging from A$57,195 to A$61,411 (including GST; 3 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

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Multigenerational Family Biography. Multigenerational Family Biography tells a family’s story across generations rather than concentrating on an individual life. Private individuals and families have commissioned bound books for milestone birthdays and family legacy purposes. Recorded work combines family interviews, including contributions from children and grandchildren, with photographs and historical material.

  • Recorded experience: 3 completed projects recorded for multigenerational family biography (2018–2026).

  • Historical pricing: a median recorded project total of A$41,113, ranging from A$32,983 to A$49,577 (including GST; 3 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing. Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing starts with an author’s existing manuscript and develops it into a printed book. Recorded family commissions involve retirement memoirs, with editing and supplementary interviews supporting the text.

  • Recorded experience: 2 completed projects recorded for client-written memoir editing and publishing (2020–2024).

  • Historical pricing: recorded project totals of A$13,867 and A$17,860 (including GST; 2 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

Community Organisation Anniversary Book. Community Organisation Anniversary Book documents an organisation’s history for an anniversary commemoration. Recorded projects draw on interviews with leadership, members or alumni, and former staff, alongside supplied photographic archives. Publications have taken the form of linen hardcovers, with slipcases for selected copies.

  • Recorded experience: 2 completed projects recorded for community organisation anniversary book (2019–2026).

  • Historical pricing: recorded project totals of A$70,003 and A$76,843 (including GST; 2 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book. Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book records a couple’s shared life in a photographic hardcover publication. Private families have commissioned this work for birthday and wedding-anniversary celebrations. Recorded projects combine the couple’s recollections with family contributions and archive material.

  • Recorded experience: 2 completed projects recorded for couple's love story or anniversary book (2019–2025).

  • Historical pricing: recorded project totals of A$25,960 and A$33,053 (including GST; 2 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

Reprint or Additional Copies. Reprint or Additional Copies supports families seeking further copies of an existing family biography. Recorded work uses archived print-ready files with publication updates to produce hardcover copies. These commissions have supplied books to extended family overseas.

  • Recorded experience: 2 completed projects recorded for reprint or additional copies (2018–2020).

  • Historical pricing: recorded project totals of A$2,068 and A$5,381 (including GST; 2 completed projects recorded with a price; not a quote).

Memorial Service Booklet. Memorial Service Booklet brings family reflections and photographs into a printed publication for a memorial service. The recorded family commission involved editing eulogies and assembling supplied photographs. The finished publication was a saddle-stitched satin booklet.

  • Recorded experience: 1 completed project recorded for memorial service booklet (2022).

  • Historical pricing: a recorded project total of A$5,528 (including GST; 1 completed project recorded with a price; not a quote).

Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book. Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book preserves memories of a deceased family member in a bound publication. The recorded family commission brought together recollections, letters, documents and photographs. These materials formed a linen-bound hardcover tribute.

  • Recorded experience: 1 completed project recorded for posthumous tribute or memorial book (2017).

  • Historical pricing: a recorded project total of A$33,330 (including GST; 1 completed project recorded with a price; not a quote).

Customer needs and applications

  • Preserve a living person’s story for their family or mark a milestone birthday or retirement — Personal Legacy Biography, Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing.

  • Bring family memories together across generations or document a couple’s shared life — Multigenerational Family Biography, Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book.

  • Document a company’s history and people for a sale, anniversary or founder tribute — Corporate or Company History Book.

  • Mark an organisational anniversary through its history and the stories of people involved — Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book, Community Organisation Anniversary Book.

  • Turn an existing memoir manuscript into a designed and printed book — Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing.

  • Commemorate a deceased family member through a service publication or a bound tribute — Memorial Service Booklet, Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book.

  • Provide additional copies of an existing family biography for extended family — Reprint or Additional Copies.

Uses found across the records:

  • Marking milestone birthdays, retirement and wedding anniversaries through personal, family or couple-centred publications.

  • Documenting a company’s history for a sale, anniversary or tribute to its founders.

  • Commemorating charity, foundation and community organisation anniversaries through history and contributor stories.

  • Remembering a deceased family member through a memorial service booklet or hardcover tribute.

  • Sharing an existing family biography with extended family overseas through additional printed copies.

Demonstrated project experience

Mind Film and Publishing has 25 completed projects recorded between 2017 and 2026, across 10 kinds of work with their own pages. A project is counted once in this total even when it involved several occasions, subjects or formats.

  • Personal Legacy Biography — Completed projects recorded: 5; Recorded period: 2018–2025

  • Corporate or Company History Book — Completed projects recorded: 4; Recorded period: 2020–2026

  • Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book — Completed projects recorded: 3; Recorded period: 2018–2025

  • Multigenerational Family Biography — Completed projects recorded: 3; Recorded period: 2018–2026

  • Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing — Completed projects recorded: 2; Recorded period: 2020–2024

  • Community Organisation Anniversary Book — Completed projects recorded: 2; Recorded period: 2019–2026

  • Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book — Completed projects recorded: 2; Recorded period: 2019–2025

  • Reprint or Additional Copies — Completed projects recorded: 2; Recorded period: 2018–2020

  • Memorial Service Booklet — Completed projects recorded: 1; Recorded period: 2022

  • Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book — Completed projects recorded: 1; Recorded period: 2017

TELL YOUR STORY

Speak your truth, tell your version of your life - it's highs, lows and what you've learnt.

LEGACY

Record your legacy, it's greatest gift - your thoughts, fears, philosophy, dreams, stories, milestones all bound in a beautiful book.

NEXT GENERATION

The next generation will thank you and so will generations after - tell your children and your grandchildren about your beautiful journey. 

BOOKS

Occasions, subjects, formats and project contexts

Milestone birthdays and retirement feature in personal biographies and memoirs, while family legacy commissions extend the subject across generations. Couples’ books document shared lives for birthdays and wedding anniversaries. Company sales, founder tributes and organisational anniversaries lead to histories drawing on people’s recollections and institutional archives. Memorial work takes the form of service booklets or bound tribute books. Recorded book formats include cloth, linen, leather and printed-case hardcovers, sometimes with slipcases, in landscape, portrait and square layouts; some projects also include interview audio archives or digital editions.

Occasion / Milestone: Milestone Birthday (6 completed projects recorded); Retirement (4 completed projects recorded); Company Sale (3 completed projects recorded); Foundation Anniversary (marking an anniversary of the organisation's founding; 3 completed projects recorded).

Client Type: Private Individual / Family (16 completed projects recorded); Corporate (4 completed projects recorded); Charity / Not-for-Profit (3 completed projects recorded).

Publication Subject: Living Individual (6 completed projects recorded); Company and Its People (4 completed projects recorded); Organisation (4 completed projects recorded); Deceased Family Member (3 completed projects recorded); Multigenerational Family (a family whose story spans generations; 3 completed projects recorded).

Storyteller Groups: Children (the subject's children contribute their recollections; 11 completed projects recorded); Grandchildren (7 completed projects recorded); Principal Subject (the person the book is about contributes their own memories; 6 completed projects recorded); Siblings, Friends or Colleagues (6 completed projects recorded); Company Founders (4 completed projects recorded); Customers or Suppliers (4 completed projects recorded); Long-Serving Staff (4 completed projects recorded); Beneficiaries or Volunteers (3 completed projects recorded).

Interview Format: Mixed Interview Format (interviews held both in person and remotely; 16 completed projects recorded); In-Person (5 completed projects recorded).

Book Format / Binding: Foil-Stamped Cloth Hardcover (7 completed projects recorded); Hardcover With Slipcase (6 completed projects recorded); Hardcover Linen-Bound Coffee Table Book (4 completed projects recorded); Leather-Bound Limited Edition (books bound in leather for a restricted print run; 4 completed projects recorded); Matte Printed-Case Hardcover (3 completed projects recorded).

Publication Size and Orientation: 300 × 240 mm Landscape (a book wider than it is tall; 9 completed projects recorded); 240 × 300 mm Portrait (8 completed projects recorded); 260 × 260 mm Square (5 completed projects recorded).

Archives and Photography: Supplied High-Resolution Archive (company archive images supplied as detailed digital files; 15 completed projects recorded); Album and Document Scanning (4 completed projects recorded); Commissioned Portrait Session (4 completed projects recorded).

Activities documented across the records:

  • Interviewing subjects, relatives and organisational contributors using mixed interview formats, including in-person interviews.

  • Undertaking contextual research and incorporating historical material into personal and family stories.

  • Working with supplied photographic archives, scanning albums and documents, and commissioning portrait photography.

  • Editing existing memoir manuscripts and eulogies, with supplementary interviews used in memoir projects.

  • Captioning photographs and designing books for publication.

  • Producing printed books and booklets, and using archived print-ready files with updates for reprints.

How the services relate:

  • Personal Legacy Biography, Multigenerational Family Biography and Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book differ in whether the central subject is an individual, a family across generations or a couple.

  • Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing begins with an existing manuscript, whereas the recorded biography work develops stories through interviews, photographs and historical material.

  • Corporate or Company History Book, Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book and Community Organisation Anniversary Book share an emphasis on organisational history and contributions from people connected to it.

  • Memorial Service Booklet serves a commemorative service, while Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book brings memories and archival material into a hardcover publication.

  • Reprint or Additional Copies extends the circulation of an existing family biography by working from archived publication files.
     

Historical project pricing

Each kind of work is priced separately below; the categories differ in scope and are not combined. Figures are recorded project totals (including GST): the single total where one project has a price, both totals for two, the median and range for three or four, and the median and middle half from five. They are historical figures from completed work, not current prices and not a quote.

  • Personal Legacy Biography — Completed projects recorded with a price: 5; Recorded total: A$25,647; Spread: middle half A$24,935–A$27,370

  • Corporate or Company History Book — Completed projects recorded with a price: 4; Recorded total: A$58,432; Spread: range A$47,535–A$67,091

  • Charity & Philanthropy Compilation Book — Completed projects recorded with a price: 3; Recorded total: A$59,509; Spread: range A$57,195–A$61,411

  • Multigenerational Family Biography — Completed projects recorded with a price: 3; Recorded total: A$41,113; Spread: range A$32,983–A$49,577

  • Client-Written Memoir Editing and Publishing — Completed projects recorded with a price: 2; Recorded total: A$13,867 and A$17,860; Spread: two recorded projects

  • Community Organisation Anniversary Book — Completed projects recorded with a price: 2; Recorded total: A$70,003 and A$76,843; Spread: two recorded projects

  • Couple's Love Story or Anniversary Book — Completed projects recorded with a price: 2; Recorded total: A$25,960 and A$33,053; Spread: two recorded projects

  • Reprint or Additional Copies — Completed projects recorded with a price: 2; Recorded total: A$2,068 and A$5,381; Spread: two recorded projects

  • Memorial Service Booklet — Completed projects recorded with a price: 1; Recorded total: A$5,528; Spread: single recorded project

  • Posthumous Tribute or Memorial Book — Completed projects recorded with a price: 1; Recorded total: A$33,330; Spread: single recorded project
     

Service area and availability

Mind Film and Publishing works with clients throughout Greater Melbourne, Victoria and across Australia, including Sydney and New South Wales.

Historical client locations include Melbourne, Essendon, Mount Eliza, Doncaster, Dandenong South, South Yarra, Richmond, Hawthorn, Sorrento, Camberwell, Ivanhoe, Brighton, Templestowe, Geelong, Victoria's Western District and Bellevue Hill in Sydney.

The business also welcomes enquiries from surrounding Melbourne suburbs, including Toorak and Armadale, as well as other metropolitan, regional and interstate locations.

Services include personal biographies, family histories, memoir editing and publishing, company histories, anniversary books and commemorative publications.

Interview arrangements, collaboration, production and delivery are discussed according to each customer's location and project requirements.

The locations listed are examples, not an exhaustive list of areas served. Historical client locations do not necessarily indicate current service availability for every offering.

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About this information

The service descriptions and experience on this page are derived from Mind Film and Publishing's own records of completed work (2017–2026), interpreted and analysed by Service Evidence, and approved by Mind Film and Publishing for publication. Counts are distinct completed projects; a project that involved several of the listed occasions, subjects or formats appears once under each, so breakdowns can add up to more than the total. The records were supplied by Mind Film and Publishing; they have not been independently audited.

Information prepared from records of completed work (2017–2026); 2026-10-13.

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