Stavros Kazantzidis trained at Sydney College of the Arts and the
Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where his graduating film,
Road to Alice, won Best Short Film at the 1992 Australian Film
Institute Awards. Stavros produced and co-wrote the low-budget hit,
Love
and Other Catastrophes (1996), starring Frances O'Connor and Radha
Mitchell. Following this he wrote and directed
True Love & Chaos and wrote and produced
Strange Planet (1999)
starring Naomi Watts and Claudia Karvan. Stavros directed the
award-winning romantic comedy
Russian Doll (2001) and in the same year,worked as a writer on Jane Campion's next project,
In the Cut.