Saara Lamberg in ‘Innuendo.’
Saara Lamberg’s debut feature Innuendo had a limited cinema release in Australia but the psychological thriller will reach a lot more eyeballs in the Us and the UK, where it’s just launched on Amazon Prime.
Amazon Prime has more than 100 million household members in the Us – although Nielsen reported one of its most watched shows, superhero adventure The Boys averaged 4.1 million viewers per episode – and 6.4 million in the UK.
The Finnish/Australian actress/filmmaker plays Tuuli, a nude art class model who moves to Melbourne from Finland and endures a string of broken relationships.
Andy Jans-Brown plays Lucky, whose friendship with Tuuli goes sour, with Andy Hazel as Thomas, a sensitive Uni student and Brendan Bacon as charismatic chainsaw sculptor Ben.
Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, the film screened at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova and at Blair Northfield’s Pighouse Flicks in Byron Bay, was...
Saara Lamberg’s debut feature Innuendo had a limited cinema release in Australia but the psychological thriller will reach a lot more eyeballs in the Us and the UK, where it’s just launched on Amazon Prime.
Amazon Prime has more than 100 million household members in the Us – although Nielsen reported one of its most watched shows, superhero adventure The Boys averaged 4.1 million viewers per episode – and 6.4 million in the UK.
The Finnish/Australian actress/filmmaker plays Tuuli, a nude art class model who moves to Melbourne from Finland and endures a string of broken relationships.
Andy Jans-Brown plays Lucky, whose friendship with Tuuli goes sour, with Andy Hazel as Thomas, a sensitive Uni student and Brendan Bacon as charismatic chainsaw sculptor Ben.
Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, the film screened at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova and at Blair Northfield’s Pighouse Flicks in Byron Bay, was...
- 1/29/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Innuendo’
Producer-exhibitor Blake Northfield and filmmaker-actor Saara Lamberg had never met until they joined Cinegar Bar, the new independent filmmakers co-operative founded by Heath Davis.
It was a fortuitous meeting for both as Northfield agreed to screen Innuendo, the Finnish-Australian’s debut feature as a director, at his Byron Bay cinema Pighouse Flicks.
In the psychological thriller she plays Tuuli, a nude art class model who moves to Melbourne from Finland and endures a string of broken relationships. Andy Jans-Brown plays Lucky, whose friendship with Tuuli goes sour, with Andy Hazel as Thomas, a sensitive uni student and Brendan Bacon as charismatic chainsaw sculptor Ben.
It will premiere at Pighouse Flicks on March 15 with a Q&A session attended by Lamberg and Jans-Brown, and will play for at least a week.
Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, the film screened last year at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova, has been released on VOD and played on 9Gem.
Producer-exhibitor Blake Northfield and filmmaker-actor Saara Lamberg had never met until they joined Cinegar Bar, the new independent filmmakers co-operative founded by Heath Davis.
It was a fortuitous meeting for both as Northfield agreed to screen Innuendo, the Finnish-Australian’s debut feature as a director, at his Byron Bay cinema Pighouse Flicks.
In the psychological thriller she plays Tuuli, a nude art class model who moves to Melbourne from Finland and endures a string of broken relationships. Andy Jans-Brown plays Lucky, whose friendship with Tuuli goes sour, with Andy Hazel as Thomas, a sensitive uni student and Brendan Bacon as charismatic chainsaw sculptor Ben.
It will premiere at Pighouse Flicks on March 15 with a Q&A session attended by Lamberg and Jans-Brown, and will play for at least a week.
Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, the film screened last year at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova, has been released on VOD and played on 9Gem.
- 2/24/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Academy still sending message that it’s big bucks, not talent, that will win you the top prize
This year’s Australian film and TV awards, the Aactas, took place before a backdrop of controversy: at the weekend the Australian revealed that the academy’s board last year sent a “grovelling apology” to its former president Geoffrey Rush, begging him to return to the position “under any terms you may like to propose”.
The veteran actor is at the centre of a legal case involving allegations of inappropriately touching his co-star of a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear, which he denies. The ensuing defamation case comes at a time of heightened concern about gender issues in Australian film and television, with Screen Australia’s Gender Matters initiative addressing the underutilisation of female talent, and an Aacta member, Andy Hazel, questioning the industry’s support of misogyny-filled stories.
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This year’s Australian film and TV awards, the Aactas, took place before a backdrop of controversy: at the weekend the Australian revealed that the academy’s board last year sent a “grovelling apology” to its former president Geoffrey Rush, begging him to return to the position “under any terms you may like to propose”.
The veteran actor is at the centre of a legal case involving allegations of inappropriately touching his co-star of a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear, which he denies. The ensuing defamation case comes at a time of heightened concern about gender issues in Australian film and television, with Screen Australia’s Gender Matters initiative addressing the underutilisation of female talent, and an Aacta member, Andy Hazel, questioning the industry’s support of misogyny-filled stories.
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- 12/6/2018
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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