Lâle recently won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her pilot script The Black Tulip, and is currently writing the rest of the 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, reading and writing coverage on over seventy feature scripts for the European Film Market, 2021.
Lâle is in development stages on an anthology of short films with actor and writer Damian de Montemas. They received script mentorship from writer/director Rachel Ward (Beautiful Kate, Palm Beach) on their pilot script The Water Lily inspired by the Henry Lawson poem of the same name.
Lâle is in development stages on an anthology of short films with actor and writer Damian de Montemas. They received script mentorship from writer/director Rachel Ward (Beautiful Kate, Palm Beach) on their pilot script The Water Lily inspired by the Henry Lawson poem of the same name.
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 is also developing her writing practice in the form of stage play, article, essay, and prose. She is currently working on a play titled Still Chaos With Dog, and her first novel titled 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.
Lâle 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.'
