Margaret Riseley

Screenwriter and Author

Brisbane, Australia

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August 2013

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About Margaret

People and their stories have always interested Margaret. Even while working as the radiographer-in-charge at a CT scan private practice, and later as a Reiki Master, she had multiple short stories published in magazines and anthologies.

Since discovering her passion in screenwriting, Margaret has dedicated herself to learning and growing in the business. She is a prolific writer whose multiple feature scripts have consistently placed high in prestigious Hollywood screenplay contests (PAGE Awards, Scriptapalooza, BlueCat, Script Pipeline, Screencraft). Known as a good collaborator, she maintains good relationships with every producer with whom she has ever worked.

SCREEN CREDITS
Writer - Twilight Tango (short) Blacmac Productions, Screen Australia funded, screened on national TV
Transcription - Wik vs Queensland (documentary) Bacon Factory Films, Bent3Land Productions, Freshwater Pictures, Screen Queensland funded

CURRENT PROJECTS
Two Graves & Counting - 6 x 1 hour TV drama series
Where The Hell Is The Raphael? - 100,000 word commercial fiction adventure-mystery novel
Chasing Victory - feature adaptation of novel by Dr. Joshua Shifrin, hired by Destiny Pictures
The Rainmaker – one hour TV drama series, Bent3Land Productions, development funded by Screen Queensland and AFTRS for Netflix initiative; hired to develop the series and write the pilot and bible

Gender:
Female

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A DIRTY LITTLE COUP Budget: $10M - $30M | Adventure In a true story, an Aussie engineer sweet-talks his new girlfriend into helping him buy a boat in a tropical island colony, but the boat is in dire shape, the colony erupts into bloody civil war, and their only hope of escape is to join the fight.
Two Graves & Counting Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller When her son is falsely arrested for killing a cop, and allegedly commits suicide in custody, an Australian Aboriginal woman vows to hunt down and kill everyone responsible.
WOUNDED Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Thriller (PAGE Awards action-adventure finalist) An ex-Marine pilot races to The Philippines to haul home the only man who can save her little girl's life, but they're kidnapped for a ransom nobody will pay.
FRAMED Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy When a lowly Wall Street file clerk discovers her boss is financing terrorists, she wakes up in Australia as a wanted woman with her real identity wiped and a hitman on her tail.
UNDYING EVIL Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Thriller A guilt-ridden young widow believes her late husband is haunting her for revenge, but it's the ghost of a serial killer still killing from beyond the grave.
BURNED Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller When an ambitious judge recognises the defendant in her court as the man who once burned her as a witch, and in this life he ruins her career, it’s time for karmic revenge.
KISSING DYNAMITE Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy ⋄ Romance ⋄ Thriller A novice engineer bluffs a gold mine owner into letting her take charge of his earthmoving contract, unaware she's being used to steal his missing gold and his mine.
A Pinch of Diamonds Comedy ⋄ Romance ⋄ Thriller When a celebrity chef gets caught in a diamond heist gone wrong, her baby is snatched. To get him back she’ll have to steal a diamond, and her only hope is to team up with a failed bank robber.

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Credits

Twilight Tango (2013)
Film (short) by Blacmac Productions Writer