Award-winning Screenwriter & Author
About 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, earned several wins, placements and official selections via the film festival route. She then moved on to writing books; two novels with screenplays attached and two non-fiction books. Her books have earned four awards.
Her Screenplays are:
Rent Money Comedy:
While working in the Radio & TV Barter Business for two sexually active men, a self-sufficient virgin bookkeeper, aroused by a handsome neighbor, is stymied by society's changing rules as the sexual revolution engulfs Manhattan in 1965.
Concrete Wings Coming of Age/Family Drama:
A naive teen sent out of Cuba on the eve of the Bay of Pigs Invasion to retrieve smuggled family jewels and settle his family in America, comes of age in New York at the height of the sexual revolution.
While I Wait A drama inspired by a true story:
As the AIDS Virus spread in the 1980s, New Yorkers were gripped with fear, anxiety and ignorance. Being an Administrative Assistant to a prominent attorney with AIDS was easy; being his friend, well, that was hard.
Misinformed Heart Drama:
A prescription addicted environmentalist on the brink of success and marriage is wrongly accused of murder as she struggles to overcome an incestuous past.
Unprotected Witness Drama/Thriller Co-written with Jack Knight:
A recently handicapped young married woman, who by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, overcomes her struggle against the relentless sexual advances of a dangerous retiree with a buried criminal past.
Turnaround A family drama inspired by a compelling true story: Co-written with John Han
A financier's Asian discipline and love of music frees his Spanish stepson from the gut-wrenching effects of ADD to become an A student and a world-class musician.
Her Books are:
Concrete Wings:Historical Fiction/Family Drama based on the screenplay Concrete Wings
A naive teen sent out of Cuba on the eve of the Bay of Pigs Invasion to retrieve smuggled family jewels and settle his family in America, comes of age in New York at the height of the sexual revolution.
Soaring in Silence, Suspense Thriller inspired by Unprotected Witness, a screenplay co-written with Jack Knight
A recently handicapped young married woman, who by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, overcomes her struggle against the relentless sexual advances of a dangerous retiree with a buried criminal past.
Women, Work and Triumph Women Empowerment/Biographies
Interviews with 26 fascinating diverse women from 5 countries in 26 careers from A - Z with 1 goal; Acceptance and Respect
When Did You Know and Who Did You Tell? LGBTQAI+/Biographies
Interviews with 25 diverse LGBTQAI+ Role Models
Beverly's books are available on-line at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and in all fine stores where books are sold. https://www.amazon.com/Beverly-Gandara/e/B01E7TYXJ8
Beverly resides in the southeast with her husband, Armando whose experiences inspired Concrete Wings.
