Loglines & Screenplays by Margaret Riseley

GENRES: 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.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

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.

GENRES: Action, Thriller / Suspense

(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.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, 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.

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

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.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

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.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance, Thriller / Suspense

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.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance, Thriller / Suspense

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.