THE UPSIDE-DOWN MAN
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​​The Upside-Down Man has won several awards in screenplay competitions, including ScreenCraft, Austin Film Festival, Los Angeles Screenwriting Expo.
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The screenplay has received strong independent coverage, earning two separate 8/10 scores, with feedback describing it as “extremely strong in originality and ability to evoke emotion” and “an intriguing premise brought to life through multi-dimensional leads.”
SETTING
Dayton, Ohio. 1956. Dayton stands as the “Invention Capital of the World”— home to pioneering aviation, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and one of the nation’s most advanced centers for aeronautics and classified research.
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Here, the race to the stars rises from factory floors and modest homes, where the ideas that shape the future are born in the most unexpected places.
​SYNOPSIS
In 1956, as the Space Race intensifies, a brilliant Harvard engineer hides in plain sight as a janitor, until a tragic accident leaves him with a rare condition that inverts his vision—forcing him to see the world literally upside-down.
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As he struggles to navigate this disorienting reality, his unique perspective allows him to visualize physical “ripples” in radiation waves— finally solving a technology he has spent years developing in secret.
This discovery catapults him from the shadows onto an elite LASER team tasked with building a satellite-tracking system for the Pentagon.
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What begins as a “disability” becomes the improbable key to a breakthrough that could determine who wins the race to space.