Awarded:
- Semifinalist – Shore Scripts 2018 (features)
- Honorable Mention – Truant Screenplay Competition 2019 (an Animal Logic Company)
- Finalist – AACTA ‘Isolation’ Pitch Comp 2020
Genre/Format/Status:
Psychological Thriller, Feature, Script
Logline:
After her corporate husband dies in mysterious circumstances, a struggling widow moves her children to the country for a life of safety and peace, only to find she is challenged to extremes to protect her children, animals and their land by an old bushman, who knows no limits.
Synopsis:
ANNIE WATERS is left betrayed and broke after her highflying corporate husband dies in mysterious circumstances. Surprising friends and family Annie returns to the bush where she grew up as a young girl, to pursue an ‘honest life’ seeking safety and peace for herself and her children, only to find herself challenged to the use of her property by a violent and dangerous old bush squatter, RONNIE. Annie has had enough of taking life lying down. He has challenged the wrong girl! Underestimated by all, we see Annie ‘cowgirl up’ to give Ronnie the fight of his life. The locals wonder if she is losing her mind. We wonder if she has it in her. And all of this happens only two hours from ‘civilisation’!
Email Megan for a copy of “Two Hours From” – megan@meganwilliams.com.au