The Makeover Man

A disgraced phonetics professor, who’s cancelled for an offhand classroom remark, tries to reclaim his reputation by transforming a homeless street kid in this modern gay update of George Bernard Shaw’s "Pygmalion."

  • Adam Sandel
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Romance, LGBTQ
  • Number of Pages:
    110
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Love Wins Int'l Film Festival - 2024

    Official Selection
  • Chicago Script Awards - 2023
    Chicago, IL
    Official Selection
  • Depth of Field International Film Festival - 2023

    Top Award
  • Gold Star Movie Awards - 2023

    Best Comedy Script
  • Seattle indie Film Festival - 2023

    Best Unproduced Script
  • Hawaii International Film Awards - 2023

    Semi-Finalist
  • San Francisco Int'l Screenwriting Awards - 2023
    San Francisco, CA
    Semi-Finalist
Writer Biography - Adam Sandel

Adam Sandel is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and playwright who’s had more than 20 productions of his plays performed internationally. He wrote, produced, and directed the satirical web series The Gay Husbands of San Francisco which is streaming on Comcast, Pluto, Oasis TV, and YouTube.

His musical Watch Me Shine (with Richard Link) earned Sandel and Link Certificates of Honor from the City of San Francisco and the California State Assembly.

His play Love Life was performed at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum Lab, Paramount's Chicago Theatre Project, and a television production of Love Life won several Chicago Emmy Awards and a special nomination for Sandel.

Stage productions include This is Not My Life (Magic Theater), musicals Gideon’s Dream (Vienna, Austria, JCCSF and Dominican University), and Dream World (San Francisco State University).

Screenplays include The Makeover Man, My Wild and Secret World, and Dave’s New World (Best Screenplay, Canadian Diversity Film Festival and Platinum Winner, LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival). TV pilots include It Had to Be Lou (Winner, SF International Screenwriting Competition) and Medium Raya.

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