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Lâle is a multidisciplinary creative and an award winning Australian Writers' Guild Pathways writer and creative currently living on Gadigal land. Lâle began making films with a home video camera at age eight in Blue Mountains, NSW, and first took to the stage at age thriteen as a fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Everglades Garden amphitheatre. The production was back by popular demand the following year. Lâle is now represented by Em Winterburn at Mollison Keightley Management.
Lâle's original TV series, a family drama / comedy titled The Golden Ass, is optioned by Goalpost Pictures and in development funded by Screen Australia. Lâle's evocative mystery pilot script See Saw was short listed for the Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award, 2023, and has now been optioned by Magpie Pictures (Swift Street). The script is now titled The Dark Horse and the Hummingbird. Lâle recently worked in a writers' room on a literary adaptation for Fremantle Media (Picnic At hanging Rock). |
Lâle was the NSW recipient of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator, 2021, placed with Goalpost Pictures for 12 months thanks to Screen Australia and Screen NSW. Lâle worked across the Goalpost development slate including working on location in the script department on Stan’s mystery series Black Snow. Lâle was the Development Coordinator for Goalpost until June 2024.
Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia and write coverage for the European Film Market on behalf of the Head of Acquisitions in 2021. After winning the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short screenplay The Black Tulip, Lâle was also funded by Scripted Ink to write the long format version. The Black Tulip script won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 2019.
Lâle made it to the interview stages for a 2023 Churchill Fellowship with her proposal to investigate development initiatives and pathways for diaspora writers in the UK, Turkey & Europe.
Lâle's pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay in Los Angeles Film Awards, 2018, and Best Short Screenplay in Red Carpet Film Awards NYC, 2018. The script was also in the official selection of Rome Prisma Awards, 2018, and the semi-finals of the Los Angeles Cinefest, 2019.
Lâle's first short film script The Palace That I Live In was produced in 2013 and had its world premiere at Palm Springs International Short Fest, 2014. The film also screened in NYC Independent Film Festival, 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, 2015, and Tasmania Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival, 2016. The film was directed by Aimèe-Lee X. Curran and features Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey (and dog Bam Bam!).
Lâle played a recurring role in Matilda Brown’s series ‘Lessons From The Grave,' which screened on ABC in 2013 and 2014, and Foxtel’s ‘Let’s Talk About’ featuring Matilda and Bryan Brown in 2016 and 2017. Lâle also designed the costumes for both series and styles for commercials and music videos. Lâle designed the costumes for 38 episodes of Deadly Women season 9 and 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle has completed a stage play titled Still Chaos With Dog and a draft of her first novel. A triptych of her poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter, 2018, ‘Escape Artists Anthology’ along with her article The Heroine’s Journey: Women On Solo Expeditions Through Film, which was first published on the Woman and Film website in 2018. Other writers included Behrouz Boochani and Ghassan Hage.
In 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions where she produced, wrote, designed, filmed, and at times directed music videos for some of Australia's leading bands including 'Deja Vu' and 'All I See Is Music' for Aria Award winning Thundamentals and the underwater photography for album cover ‘Unbreakable’ for Indigenous singer Jess Hitchcock, 2022. She also filmed underwater music videos for German-Australian band Lalume and exhibited an underwater photograph as part of All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, 2018. Her underwater photography received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards, 2016. Lâle had a photograph printed in the ACP’s hard copy book Blow Up celebrating 40 years of ACP, 2015.
Lâle has created a series of surrealist inspired 'moving images' titled The Sea Ear. The first three of these videos were interwoven and exhibited in the International Women's Day WOMXN exhibition at Mothership Studios in Marrickville, March, 2021. Profits were donated to Samaritan House and Women's Family Service. The fourth video in the series screened at the inaugural silent film festival Shooshfest in Sydney, 2024.
Lâle completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and a BA in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University. Lâle is also a graduate of Actor’s College of Theatre & Television (now AFTT), NIDA part time acting ensemble, and Design Centre Enmore.
Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia and write coverage for the European Film Market on behalf of the Head of Acquisitions in 2021. After winning the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short screenplay The Black Tulip, Lâle was also funded by Scripted Ink to write the long format version. The Black Tulip script won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 2019.
Lâle made it to the interview stages for a 2023 Churchill Fellowship with her proposal to investigate development initiatives and pathways for diaspora writers in the UK, Turkey & Europe.
Lâle's pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay in Los Angeles Film Awards, 2018, and Best Short Screenplay in Red Carpet Film Awards NYC, 2018. The script was also in the official selection of Rome Prisma Awards, 2018, and the semi-finals of the Los Angeles Cinefest, 2019.
Lâle's first short film script The Palace That I Live In was produced in 2013 and had its world premiere at Palm Springs International Short Fest, 2014. The film also screened in NYC Independent Film Festival, 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, 2015, and Tasmania Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival, 2016. The film was directed by Aimèe-Lee X. Curran and features Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey (and dog Bam Bam!).
Lâle played a recurring role in Matilda Brown’s series ‘Lessons From The Grave,' which screened on ABC in 2013 and 2014, and Foxtel’s ‘Let’s Talk About’ featuring Matilda and Bryan Brown in 2016 and 2017. Lâle also designed the costumes for both series and styles for commercials and music videos. Lâle designed the costumes for 38 episodes of Deadly Women season 9 and 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle has completed a stage play titled Still Chaos With Dog and a draft of her first novel. A triptych of her poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter, 2018, ‘Escape Artists Anthology’ along with her article The Heroine’s Journey: Women On Solo Expeditions Through Film, which was first published on the Woman and Film website in 2018. Other writers included Behrouz Boochani and Ghassan Hage.
In 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions where she produced, wrote, designed, filmed, and at times directed music videos for some of Australia's leading bands including 'Deja Vu' and 'All I See Is Music' for Aria Award winning Thundamentals and the underwater photography for album cover ‘Unbreakable’ for Indigenous singer Jess Hitchcock, 2022. She also filmed underwater music videos for German-Australian band Lalume and exhibited an underwater photograph as part of All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, 2018. Her underwater photography received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards, 2016. Lâle had a photograph printed in the ACP’s hard copy book Blow Up celebrating 40 years of ACP, 2015.
Lâle has created a series of surrealist inspired 'moving images' titled The Sea Ear. The first three of these videos were interwoven and exhibited in the International Women's Day WOMXN exhibition at Mothership Studios in Marrickville, March, 2021. Profits were donated to Samaritan House and Women's Family Service. The fourth video in the series screened at the inaugural silent film festival Shooshfest in Sydney, 2024.
Lâle completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and a BA in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University. Lâle is also a graduate of Actor’s College of Theatre & Television (now AFTT), NIDA part time acting ensemble, and Design Centre Enmore.