Ana Verde is a Puerto Rican and Venezuelan writer and director based in Los Angeles. She is a 2023 Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today fellow (Hola México Film Festival), a 2023 Rising Voices fellow (Hillman Grad/Indeed), a 2022 Orchard Project Episodic Lab fellow (The Orchard Project), and a 2022 WAVE Grant Recipient (Wavelength Productions). Her most recent film, Mara Has Three Jobs in San Juan, Puerto Rico, had its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to play at Palm Springs International ShortFest, RiverRun, and NewFilmmakers LA, among others. The film also had a theatrical window of distribution playing in select theaters in front of Barbie and Blue Beetle.

Her other short film, Te llaman las olas, had its world premiere at the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival, followed by subsequent screenings at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival and the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival.

For the past seven years, Ana has worked at the Sundance Institute, most recently as the Senior Manager of the Artist Accelerator & Women at Sundance Programs which provide creative and developmental support to filmmakers working in fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, she has continued her work with Wavelength Productions by way of co-hosting REEL TALK: A WAVE Grant Podcast, and she currently mentors the 2024 class of WAVE Grantees.