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Lâle is an award winning multidisciplinary writer living on Gadigal land. Her original TV series, a family drama / comedy titled The Golden Ass, is optioned by Goalpost Pictures (Black Snow) and in development funded by Screen Australia.
Lâle's evocative mystery pilot script See Saw was short listed in the long format category for an Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award, 2023, and is now optioned by Magpie Pictures (Swift Street). Lâle recently contributed in a writers' room on a literary adaptation for Fremantle Media (Picnic At hanging Rock), 2024. Lâle was the NSW recipient of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator, 2021, placed with Goalpost Pictures for 12 months. Lâle worked across the Goalpost film and television development slate, including working on location in the script department on Stan’s mystery series Black Snow. Lâle was a contributing writer on one of Goalpost’s productions in development with NITV, 2022, and worked as Development Coordinator for Goalpost until June 2024, totalling almost three years. |
Lâle won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short screenplay The Black Tulip and was then inducted into the Australian Writers' Guild Pathways featured writers. The script also won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 2019. Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to write a long format version of The Black Tulip and then the AWG recommended her for a placement at StudioCanal Australia, writing coverage for the European Film Market, 2021 on behalf of the Head of Acquisitions Greg Denning. 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 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 and Europe. She spent six weeks of 2023 in France working on her first novel, and has now completed the first draft manuscript.
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 (and dog Bam Bam!).
Lâle wrote the dark comedy stage play 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. Other writers included Behrouz Boochani and Ghassan Hage.
Lâle completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and completed a BA in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University.
Lâle is represented by Em Winterburn at Mollison Keightley Management.
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 and Europe. She spent six weeks of 2023 in France working on her first novel, and has now completed the first draft manuscript.
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 (and dog Bam Bam!).
Lâle wrote the dark comedy stage play 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. Other writers included Behrouz Boochani and Ghassan Hage.
Lâle completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and completed a BA in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University.
Lâle is represented by Em Winterburn at Mollison Keightley Management.
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