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Lâle is a multidisciplinary creative and an award winning Australian Writers' Guild Pathways writer currently living on Gadigal land.
Lâle's original TV series, a comedy/drama titled The Golden Ass is optioned by Goalpost Pictures and in development funded by Screen Australia. Her evocative mystery pilot script See Saw was short listed for the Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award, 2023, and has now been optioned by Magpie Pictures (Swift Street). The script is now titled The Dark Horse and the Hummingbird. Lâle recently worked in a writers' room on a literary adaptation for Fremantle Media (Picnic At Hanging Rock). Lâle was the NSW recipient of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator, 2021, placed with Goalpost Pictures thanks to Screen Australia and Screen NSW. Lâle worked across the Goalpost development slate including on location in the script department on Stan’s mystery series Black Snow. Lâle remained the Development Coordinator at Goalpost for almost three years. |
Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to work at Studiocanal Australia and write coverage for the European Film Market on behalf of the Head of Acquisitions in 2021. After winning the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short screenplay The Black Tulip, Lâle was also funded by Scripted Ink to write the long format version. The Black Tulip script won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 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 currently teaches screenwriting part time at Sydney Film School, 2025.
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 features Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey (and dog Bam Bam!).
Lâle played a recurring acting 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 Sam Neill and Bryan Brown 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 episodes of Deadly Women season 9 and 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle completed a stage play titled Still Chaos With Dog and a draft of her first novel in 2025. A triptych of her poetry was 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.
In 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions where she produced, wrote, designed, filmed, 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 and the underwater photography for album cover ‘Unbreakable’ for singer Jess Hitchcock, 2022. She also filmed underwater music videos for German-Australian band Lalume and exhibited an underwater photograph as part of All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, 2018. Her underwater photography received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards, 2016. Lâle had a photograph printed in the Australian Centre for Photography’s hard copy book Blow Up celebrating 40 years of the ACP, 2015.
Lâle created 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. The fourth video in the series screened at the inaugural silent film festival Shooshfest in Sydney, 2024. Lâle curated and exhibited work in an exhibition Archive of Dreams at Landslide Gallery in the Blue Mountains, 2025.
Lâle began making films with a home video camera at age eight where she grew up in Blue Mountains, NSW, and first took to the stage at age thirteen as a fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Everglades Garden amphitheatre. The production was back by popular demand the following year!
Lâle is represented by Em Winterburn at Mollison Keightley Management. She completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University. Lâle is also a graduate of Actor’s College of Theatre & Television, NIDA part time acting ensemble, and Design Centre Enmore.
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 currently teaches screenwriting part time at Sydney Film School, 2025.
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 features Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey (and dog Bam Bam!).
Lâle played a recurring acting 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 Sam Neill and Bryan Brown 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 episodes of Deadly Women season 9 and 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle completed a stage play titled Still Chaos With Dog and a draft of her first novel in 2025. A triptych of her poetry was 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.
In 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions where she produced, wrote, designed, filmed, 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 and the underwater photography for album cover ‘Unbreakable’ for singer Jess Hitchcock, 2022. She also filmed underwater music videos for German-Australian band Lalume and exhibited an underwater photograph as part of All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, 2018. Her underwater photography received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards, 2016. Lâle had a photograph printed in the Australian Centre for Photography’s hard copy book Blow Up celebrating 40 years of the ACP, 2015.
Lâle created 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. The fourth video in the series screened at the inaugural silent film festival Shooshfest in Sydney, 2024. Lâle curated and exhibited work in an exhibition Archive of Dreams at Landslide Gallery in the Blue Mountains, 2025.
Lâle began making films with a home video camera at age eight where she grew up in Blue Mountains, NSW, and first took to the stage at age thirteen as a fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Everglades Garden amphitheatre. The production was back by popular demand the following year!
Lâle is represented by Em Winterburn at Mollison Keightley Management. She completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre, Centre for Continuing Education Sydney University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and English online with Southern Cross University. Lâle is also a graduate of Actor’s College of Theatre & Television, NIDA part time acting ensemble, and Design Centre Enmore.