BEVERLY GANDARA-Screenwriter

480 443-1310 H/480 213-4079 C

bevi@cox.net

RESUME

CONCRETE WINGS - Family Drama

Quarter Finalist, 2011 Scriptoid Feature Challenge

Quarter Finalist, StoryPros 2nd Annual International Screenplay Contest

Finalist, June, 2011 Top 5 Loglines, Three Lines or Less: A Logline Contest

Family Drama based on a true story: A naïve teen sent out of Cuba on the eve of the Bay of Pigs to save smuggled family jewels comes of age in New York at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedoms. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his freedoms when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American society.

MISINFORMED HEART - Drama/Thriller

Finalist August 2011 Three Lines or Less: A Logline Contest

Drama/Thriller: A prescription addicted environmentalist on the brink of success and marriage is wrongly accused of murder as she struggles to overcome an incestuous past.

RENT MONEY - Comedy (In Development)

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Golden Palm Award for Best Screenplay of 2012 International Beverly Hills Film Festival http://www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com//news_win2012.php

Finalist, 2012 Charleston International Film Festival Screenplay Competition

First Round TOP 100 Finalists of the 2011 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition

Semi-Finalist, 2011 Scriptoid Feature Challenge

Quarter Finalist, StoryPros 5th Annual International Screenplay Contest

Finalist July 2011 Three Lines or Less: A Logline Contest

Comedy: While working in the Radio and TV Barter Business, a self-sufficient virgin bookkeeper aroused by a handsome neighbor is stymied by society's changing rules as the sexual revolution engulfs Manhattan on 1965.

TURNAROUND - Family Drama Co-Written with John Han (OPTIONED-now available) http://inktip.com/main_total_deals_closed.php?cat=sa&scat=credits (Nov. 10, 2011)

Semi-Finalist, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards

Round Two (Top 25%) 2011 Page Awards

Family Drama based on a true story: An Asian man uses ancestral values and music to free his Spanish stepson from the gut-wrenching effects of ADD in defiance of the medical and educational communities, and, as a result, he and his wife raise an A student and world class jazz musician.

UNPROTECTED WITNESS - Drama/Thriller Co-Written with Jack Knight

Semi-Finalist, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards

Round Two (Top 25%) 2011 Page Awards

Finalist, Oct/Nov, 2011 Three Lines or Less: A Logline Contest

Drama/Thriller:  In 1994, a young wife who relocates to Arizona from NY for health reasons, is subjected to relentless sexual advances by a dangerous retiree with a hidden criminal past. In a battle for survival, by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, she derails an impending attack, positions the bully to meet his destiny and triumphs in secret.

WHILE I WAIT - Drama

Top 25% 2012 Page Awards

Finalist, Dec/Jan 2012 Three Lines or Less: A Logline Contest

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.

Representation:
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Shukat Arrow Hafer Weber & Herbsman, L.L.P., Kerry L. Smith, Esq., Attorney 111 West 57th Street, Suite 1120, New York, , New York 10019 United States
212.245.4580 . kerry@musiclaw.com . www.musiclaw.com

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