Short Cuts | |
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Created by | Marieke Hardy |
Starring | Katie Barnes Gemma Bishop Damien Bodie Alex Cappelli Dylan Gray Joel Gray Leah De Neise Lucia Smyrk Alex Tsitsopoulos Matthew Green |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Release | |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 15 July 2002 – 19 August 2003 |
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.
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.
The series was filmed at Fitzroy High School in the inner north of Melbourne. The school had been closed by the Kennett state government in 1992. Following a community campaign it was re-opened in 2004.
One series of Short Cuts was filmed, and comprised 26 episodes.
Marieke Hardy won an Australian Writers' Guild Award in 2002 for Short Cuts.