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. Her time at Goalpost was extended through Screen NSW to continue working on Black Snow in post-production, 2022, to closely observe the show runner requirements. Lâle is now the part time Development Coordinator for Goalpost in 2023. She has her first original heartwarming comedy TV series optioned in early development.
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 and recently spent 5 weeks in France working on her first novel.
Lâle's coming-of-age mystery thriller pilot script See Saw is currently short listed in the long format category for an Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award, 2023. Lâle won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her pilot script The Black Tulip in the short form category, and was then inducted into the Australian Writers' Guild Pathways featured writers. Lâle is currently writing the rest of The Black Tulip series funded by Scripted Ink. The script also 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 was also sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia, writing coverage for the European Film Market, 2021.
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 and recently spent 5 weeks in France working on her first novel.
Lâle's coming-of-age mystery thriller pilot script See Saw is currently short listed in the long format category for an Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award, 2023. Lâle won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her pilot script The Black Tulip in the short form category, and was then inducted into the Australian Writers' Guild Pathways featured writers. Lâle is currently writing the rest of The Black Tulip series funded by Scripted Ink. The script also 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 was also sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia, writing coverage for the European Film Market, 2021.
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 wrote the dark comedy play titled Still Chaos With Dog after working for three years as a life drawing model in Sydney. (The artists that inspired the play now call each other by their character names!) 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.
Lâle 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. She completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and studied a BA in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University.
Lâle wrote the dark comedy play titled Still Chaos With Dog after working for three years as a life drawing model in Sydney. (The artists that inspired the play now call each other by their character names!) 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.
Lâle 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. She completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and studied a BA in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University.
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'Regretting the unfulfilled aspirations of her eccentric mother, 17 year-old Poppy struggles to accept her life in a run-down shed on a decaying rural property. Her vividly imagined dreams lend her escape, but an awkward friendship with a boy from a nearby property leads to a greater understanding of what it means to live a normal life.'
