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Lâle is an Australian Writers' Guild Pathways showcased writer and art maker currently living on Gadigal land. Lâle began making films with a home video camera at age eight in Blue Mountains, NSW, before moving to Sydney where she 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 the NSW recipient of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator, 2021, placed with Goalpost Pictures for 12 months thanks to Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Australian Writers’ Guild and SBS. Lâle worked across the Goalpost development slate including 5 weeks on location in the script department on Stan’s mystery series Black Snow. Lâle is a contributing writer on one of Goalpost’s productions in development with NITV. |
Lâle’s time at Goalpost was extended through Screen NSW to continue working on Black Snow in post-production, 2022. She is now the part time Development Coordinator for the company in 2023.
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. She has received script mentorship over the years from writers and producers such as Rachel Ward, Catherine Smyth McMullen, Shelley Birse, Chelsea Cassio, Kylie du Fresne and Polly Rowe.
Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia and write coverage for the European Film Market, 2021, after winning the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short pilot script The Black Tulip. She was also funded by Scripted Ink to write the rest of the series. The Black Tulip script won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 2019.
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 featured Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey.
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, Rick Davies, Sam Neill, and Andrea Demetriades 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 stories of Deadly Women season 9 and 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle is currently working on a play titled Still Chaos With Dog and her first novel Somnio. 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.
In March 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions where she has produced, written, designed 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. Currently Lâle is working on 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.
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. She has received script mentorship over the years from writers and producers such as Rachel Ward, Catherine Smyth McMullen, Shelley Birse, Chelsea Cassio, Kylie du Fresne and Polly Rowe.
Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia and write coverage for the European Film Market, 2021, after winning the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short pilot script The Black Tulip. She was also funded by Scripted Ink to write the rest of the series. The Black Tulip script won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 2019.
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 featured Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey.
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, Rick Davies, Sam Neill, and Andrea Demetriades 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 stories of Deadly Women season 9 and 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle is currently working on a play titled Still Chaos With Dog and her first novel Somnio. 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.
In March 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions where she has produced, written, designed 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. Currently Lâle is working on 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.