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Lâle recently won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short pilot script The Black Tulip. The script also won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards 2019. Lâle's short pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay in Los Angeles Film Awards 2018 which is an IMDB accredited festival, 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 is in development stages on a series of short films with actor and writer Damian de Montemas. They have received script mentorship from award winning 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 has also screened in NYC Independent Film Festival 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival in 2015, & 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 stage play, essay, and prose. She is currently working on her first play titled Still Chaos With Dog. 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’.
Lâle completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre & Centre for Continuing Education at Sydney University.
Lâle completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre & Centre for Continuing Education at Sydney University.
'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.'
