Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2002. The 26-episode series was aimed at teenagers. It was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Burberry Productions. The series was subsequently repeated on the youth-oriented network ABC3 in March and April 2011.
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Premise
Short Cuts depicts a group of students in a media studies class facing the challenges of growing up and using a camera to express themselves for their schoolwork.
Location
The series was filmed at Fitzroy High School in the inner north of Melbourne.
Cast
Main or regular
Alex Tsitsopoulos as Ross Papasavas
Gemma Bishop as Sophie Bennett
Damien Bodie as Oscar Coxon
Katie Barnes as Fiona Frischmann
Alexander Cappelli as Kurt Winters
Leah de Niese as Ruth Hartnell
Lucia Smyrk as Anna Klopfer
Dylan Gray as Tim McQuilten
Joel Gray as Tom McQuilten
Matthew Green as Gordon Long
Kym Osborne as office guy
Recurring
Katerina Kotsonis as Mrs Papasavas, Ross's mother
Marcus Eyre as Aaron Winters, Kurt's father
Alex Konis as Laz Papasavas, Ross's brother
Bruce Spence as Mr Coxon
Jane Hall as PC Demmler (2 episodes)
Louise Siversen as Mrs Bartlett (9 episodes)
Marieke Hardy (writer of the series) as Josephine Coxon (2 episodes)
Johnny Lockwood as Hippy
Denise Scott as Mrs Coxon (4 episodes)
Guests
Angus Sampson as DJ
Brett Swain as Glenn
Lisa Aldenhoven as Mrs Frischmann
Episodes
One series of Short Cuts was filmed, and comprised 26 episodes.
Awards
Marieke Hardy won an Australian Writers' Guild Award in 2002 for Short Cuts.