Short Cuts (TV series)

Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2001. 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.

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.

Main / 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)
 * Marieke Hardy, writer of the series, guest starred as Josephine Coxon (2 episodes)
 * Johnny Lockwood as Hippy
 * Denise Scott as Mrs Coxon (4 episodes)

Guests

 * Angus Sampson as DJ

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.