Saara Lamberg is a

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and

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n filmmaker, director, writer, producer and actor currently working in Australia. Her most notable work to date is the feature film ''

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'' (written, directed and produced by Lamberg), which was released theatrically in October 2017 in Melbourne. ''Innuendo'' has been compared with works of David Lynch, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Roman Polanski

Biography

Lamberg was born in

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, Finland, and she graduated from at the age of eighteen. Lamberg studied in

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, England, and graduated with a BA (HonsS)

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and Choreographic Practices degree in 2007. In 2010 she entered the new '

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' programme in Australia's oldest art centre,

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based in

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and made Melbourne her home, becoming a dual citizen in 2014. Lamberg won the Bronze prize at the Beverly Hills screenplay contest (Hollywood 2013), Best Actor at Comfy Shorts (Melbourne 2014), Best Drama at the Connect Film Festival (Melbourne 2014) and Best Actor (Lithuania 2004). Her first feature ''Innuendo'' won the Best Feature at the Fine Arts Film Festival in California and the Audience Award for Best Australian film by Cinema Australia. The film has its European premiere at the Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma des Antipodes in October 2017 The Movie Blog described ''Innuendo'' as "a very important piece of Aussie cinema", Film Ink "true original" and Chelle's inferno "an instant classic in Australian cinema". ''Innuendo'' is distributed by Umbrella Entertainment in Australia and represented by Blairwood Entertainment for international sales. Lamberg wrote, directed and produced five short films before she launched onto the production of ''Innuendo''. In 2017 she also started the production of her second feature film, ''Westermarck Effect''.

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