Isaac Jeffrey Screenwriting
Isaac is the award winning screenwriter of The Meditation Room, While Noah Slept and Shaw Vengeance.
He won Best Mystery and Best First Time Screenwriter at the Melbourne International Screenplay Awards, received an Honourable Mention as a first time screenwriter at the Los Angeles Film Awards, and achieved places in the Semi-Finals at the Brisbane Indie Film Festival (Best Feature), Los Angeles Film Awards (Best Feature) and International Indie Film and Screenplay Festival (Best Feature), and has made it to Jury Selection at the Cannes Film Awards (Best Feature, First Time Screenwriter and LGBTQ Screenplay).
You can find out more about the screenplays below.
Xavier Wallace Author
Xavier Wallace is Isaac’s pseudonym or pen name under which he has written six novels in the Max Shaw spy action thriller series.
The novels are: Shaw Vengeance, Shaw Initiation, Shaw Confrontation, Shaw Intervention, Shaw Reclamation and Shaw Salvation.
You can find out more about the novels below or at www.xavierwallace.com.
Jeffrey + Wallace Publishing
Jeffrey + Wallace is a publishing brand which helps new authors get their stories to the world. It is elevated self-publishing.
Isaac’s novels were originally published in the UK, which he will always be thankful for as they gave him a start as a published author. After several years, he decided to take back the rights to the six novels and publish under the Jeffrey + Wallace brand, and to offer publishing services to new authors.
You can find out more at www.jwpublishing.com.au.
Screenplays
The Meditation Room
A heartbroken staffer must navigate the dangerous world of power and politics, and shake off suspicion, after his boss and lover is assassinated days before claiming the Prime Ministership.
Title: The Meditation Room
Genre: Mystery
Length: Feature Film
Screenplay: 91 Pages
Writer: Isaac Jeffrey
Production: Rights Available
Story:
A murder mystery with political intrigue.
It’s an Agatha Christie style whodunit through the eyes of one of the primary suspects. It’s “Double Jeopardy” meets “House of Cards”, “The Senator” and “A Very English Scandal”.
“The Meditation Room is a sharp, politically charged mystery…it’s tight and layered - shifting between scandal, murder, and psychological tension with expert control. The pacing never falters…Each scene builds suspense while deepening character stakes, and the dialogue feels authentic to its political setting - cutting, cynical, and intelligent…the script stands out for its originality and restraint…is both daring and grounded, making the mystery feel both plausible and dangerous. The characters are sharply drawn and complex. The Meditation Room succeeds because it’s both a mystery and a mirror - reflecting ambition, betrayal, and the cost of secrecy in a world built on image.” – Melbourne International Screenplay Awards Judging Panel.
While Noah Slept
A high school football team captain begins to explore his sense of self as he sits by the bed of a classmate beaten into a coma for who he loves.
Title: While Noah Slept
Genre: Drama
Length: Feature Film
Screenplay: 96 Pages
Writer: Isaac Jeffrey
Production: Rights Available
Story:
A coming-of-age and self-discovery romantic drama.
It’s a high school love story with sometimes dark and challenging adult themes set in Newcastle Australia.
“While You Were Sleeping” and “Friday Night Lights” meets “Love, Simon”, “Alex Strangelove” and “Handsome Devil”.
Shaw Vengeance
An Australian intelligence agent spiralling after the loss of his fiancé must overcome his own grief to stop an escalating series of terror attacks, get vengeance for the man he loved and finally allow himself to move on.
Title: Shaw Vengeance
Genre: Action Thriller
Length: Feature Film
Screenplay: 113 Pages
Writer: Isaac Jeffrey (AKA Xavier Wallace)
Production: Rights Available
Story:
A fast paced and relentless action thriller.
It’s car chases, shoot outs and explosions underpinned by the challenges of love and loss, while breaking down gay stereotypes.
It’s “24” and “Casino Royale” meets “All of Us Strangers” and “Secret City”.
Adapted from the novel Shaw Vengeance by Xavier Wallace.
Novels
Shaw Vengeance
Burdened by loss.
Ruthlessly determined.
Ready to do whatever it takes.
Agent Max Shaw is on a path to vengeance.
Agent Max 'Prince' Shaw and his team hunt for the leader of a terrorist organisation - the perpetrators of an escalating series of attacks.
While willing to do whatever it takes to protect the innocent, Max is tortured as he is put on a collision course with his past.
As his worlds collide, Max must overcome his own grief to stop the terror, save the country and maybe finally get his vengeance.
Shaw Initiation
Eager to serve.
Instinct to succeed.
Failure: Biblical.
New recruit Max Shaw's initiation has begun.
When General Patrick 'Hulk' Scott, head of the Australian Intelligence Service, recruits young and promising university student Max Shaw he puts him on a course towards becoming a frontline intelligence agent.
During his initiation training, it's clear Max has something rare - the skills and ruthlessness needed to become a formidable spy. But Max is full of doubt, questioning whether he can do the things his country needs him to do, including lying to the man he loves.
Just as his training ends, new recruit Max is thrown into his first mission to stop a hellish crusade from an unholy trinity of terrorists armed with a deadly biological weapon.
Is he ready?
Shaw Confrontation
Uncompromising.
Unrelenting.
Unstoppable.
Agent Max Shaw confronts terror, his past and himself.
Six months after a devastating attack on Parliament House and major cities in Australia, Agent Max Shaw is taking a well earned break in Italy.
But when a new threat is called in, Max must lead his team exchanging roles of hunter and hunted as they try to outwit a terrorist organisation pulling the strings of global disorder.
Who can you trust when the terrorists are hiding in plain sight? And when they hold all the cards how can you deliver justice?
Max must confront his inner demons and put an end to the terror before the world as we know it ends.
Shaw Intervention
On the run.
Judge, jury and executioner.
The world at risk.
Max Shaw must intervene.
Rogue agent Max Shaw has been on the run, hunted by the very agencies he once served, as he set about eliminating the remaining players of global terror organisation The Sixteen..
But now it seems he's gone too far, compromising his morals and ethics, or has he?
As a new enemy rises set to fill the void left by The Sixteen the world is vulnerable and only one man can protect it..
The only question is: where is he?
Shaw Reclamation
Locked up.
Lies, deceit and corruption.
A new age threat.
Max Shaw must reclaim his freedom, his life and our world.
Subject to extraordinary rendition former agent Max Shaw finds himself in The Hague on trial for war crimes, while the world welcomes the launch of Apollo a new AI program set to reshape the world.
With enemies on all sides, and without his team or support, Max faces his toughest mission yet to uncover who or what is behind a global cyber attack which could launch World War III.
But first he needs to get out of gaol.
Shaw Salvation
Strictly retired.
Staunchly loyal.
Strongly compelled.
Former Agent Max Shaw returns to fight for our salvation.
Far removed from the world of terror and heartache he once endured former agent Max 'Prince' Shaw is enjoying the quiet life preparing to marry his fiancé Blake, until a phone call from his old mentor drags him back to the Australian Intelligence Service.
Returning to where it all began, AIS's secret base the Wool Shed, Max sets about training new recruits hoping his days of chasing terrorists are now behind him.
But when a group of domestic terrorists unleashes a wave of attacks across Australia and sets their sights on chaos, Max is forced to act.
With so much on the line Max must find out whether he still has what it takes to save the nation, save the AIS and save the man he loves.