Lalu (Esra) Ozban creates, curates, exhibits, and archives audio/visual media. Lalu's artistic, curational, and scholarly work focuses on trans, queer, and feminist pedagogies, methodologies, theories, histories, and creative practices. Lalu's work has reached international audiences, with screenings at InsideOut Toronto, Pembe Hayat KuirFest, Documentarist, and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest. They have also curated special programs for institutions like ICA London, Sinema Transtopia Berlin, Aphrodite Festival Athens, Cambridge University, and AWID Feminist Forum. Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, Lalu holds a BA in Economics from Bogazici University and an MA in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

They are currently a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media, with their designated emphasis on Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Their dissertation project, Koli Sinemaları: a trans/lubunya/kuir/queer feminist research-archive-creation, trans communities' experiences of collective filmwatching, community-building, and sex work in porn moviethatres in Turkey. As a practice-based Ph.D. candidate, Lalu interprets the research-creation dissertation as transfeminist research-archive-creation and aims to explore trans/lubunya/kuir/queer feminist filmmaking, archiving and curating.