Ana Cristina Franco Varea (1985) is a writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker who explores self-reference from the writing and the script. She has been a columnist for Mundo Diners magazine from 2013 to the present. Her stories have been published in anthologies and magazines.She studied cinema at INCINE and is one of the directors of the film Los Canallas (2009) in which she wrote, directed and acted in the first medium-length film (self-referential comedy) called “We love Helena so much”.She is currently working on two film projects in development and on her first book, an intimate diary, a mix of first-person essay and poetry.