Beverly Gandara

A New York native, Beverly is an award-winning screenwriter and author. She began her screenwriting studies at The Gotham Writers' Workshop, after retirement from the corporate world. Writing in different genres, she completed several screenplays, many of which are official selections, winners and contest-placed. She converted two of her screenplays into award-winning novels and then wrote a non-fiction women's book.

Her comedy screenplay Rent Money won: 2012 Beverly Hills International Film Festival Golden Palm Award for Best Screenplay

Her coming of age/family drama screenplay Concrete Wings won: 2022 World-Fest International Houston Film Festival Gold Remi Award for the Historical/Period Piece Category. 2021 Accolade Global Film Competition for Best Screenplay in two categories Latin/Hispanic and Personal Growth 2021 World Film Carnival - Singapore for Best Feature Script 2021 Hollywood on the Tiber Film Awards for Best Original Story 2021 8 & Half Film Awards for Best International Writer

Her LGBTQ+ period piece screenplay While I Wait won: June 2022 Hollywood Gold Award's Silver Award for Best Feature Script July 2022 New York Movie Award's Honorable Mention 2022 Queer Global Arts Fest Official Selection 2022 California Women's Film Festival Finalist 2022 Paris Film Award Official Selection Wildsound Festival's Top 100 screenplays of the Year on the drama festival site and is one of the best scripts to read for 2017 2012 Page Awards Second Round Top 25%

She converted her screenplay, Concrete Wings into a novel, which to date has earned; 2021 Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award 2018 Florida Book Festival's Honorable Mention 2017 Literary Classic's Seal of Approval, with a recommendation for school and home libraries 2017 The Readers' Favorite Five Star Seal 2017 New York Book Festival's Honorable Mention

Her second novel, Soaring in Silence, inspired by Unprotected Witness, a screenplay co-written with Jack Knight, earned: 2019 Five Star Readers' Favorite Seal.

Her third book, Women, Work and Triumph, a compilation of interviews with 26 fascinating diverse women from 5 countries in 26 careers from A - Z with 1 goal; Acceptance and Respect received: 2020 Five Star Readers' Favorite Seal 2021 Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award.

Beverly's books are available on-line at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and in all fine stores where books are sold.

Beverly resides in the southeast with her husband, Armando whose experiences inspired Concrete Wings. For more information about Bev and her work,