ABOUT
ANNA MIGUEL CERVANTES (b. 1993, Cagayan de Oro, legal name: Jannabel Moya) is a Filipina writer, filmmaker, and artist whose spacial propositions examine close consciousness on conflict, intrusion, and reconciliation.
She works with textile, video, projection mapping, ceramics, and concrete poetry. She is spurred by an ongoing 15-year background in peace work within conflict areas in Mindanao, Southern Philippines.
She is a recipient of the NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour of Para Site (HK), and recently concluded her residency for Art Fair Philippines under Linangan Art Residency. Her media-based works have screened in the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Cinema Rehiyon, Binisaya, Chuncheon International Film Festival (KR), and various artist-run spaces across the Philippines.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 Art Fair Philippines, Linangan Art Residency
GRANTS
2021 NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labor, Para Site (HK)
2020 Cinema Competitive Grants, National Commission for Culture and the Arts
2020 Art of Peace Project, British Council Philippines
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Stormborne, Studio Maya, Quezon City
2024
Lunesan, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban
Ngilngig: Un/Tamed, La Herencia, Davao City
Art Fair Philippines / Residencies, The Link, Makati City
Pagtilipon-tipon, Orange Project, Bacolod City
Critic/ism in Flux, Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Center, Makati City
2023
Art Fair Philippines: Patikim, Linangan Art Residency, Cavite
Jumpcut 4: Wala Aswang sa Capiz, Green Papaya Art Projects, Roxas
Division of Labor, KalawakanSpacetime, Quezon City
2022
We are Gathered Here Today, Baraks Artist-run Space, Quezon City
2021
Open: Independence Day art exhibit by DAKILA and Active Vista
COMMISSION & COLLECTION
2024 Let Me Come Home, Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Center, Makati City
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology, 2014
Ateneo de Davao University (PH)
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Monitoring and Communications Officer,
Tambayan Center for Children’s Rights (PH)
2014-2017
CREATIVE INVOLVEMENTS
Board member Pasalidahay
2024 Film Programmer, Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival
2023 Jury, Cine de Oro Film Festival
2017-2021 Founder and main convenor, The Panagtagbo
2017-2019 Volunteer, Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival
2014-2016 Editor / writer, LIEU Magazine
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS, SCREENING TALKBACKS
2025
"Projection Mapping: A Light to Dis/Appear Completely", artist talk, LPU Davao
2024
“Mga Gipaambit Gikan sa Tubig” film screening and talkback, Cinematheque Centre Davao
Artist, curator talk: Critic/ism in Flux, Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Center, Makati City
Art Fair Philippines / TALKS, The Link, Makati City
2023
“Film narratives in the communities & regions and their various iterations” , PeliKultura Film Festival,
University of the Philippines - Los Baños
2022
“Baboy Halas: Wailings in the Forest”, film screening and talkback, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
“Mga Gipaambit Gikan sa Tubig”, film screening and talkback, Emerging Islands, La Union
“Mga Gipaambit Gikan sa Tubig”, film screening and talkback, Baraks Artist-run Space, Quezon City
FADSPEAK Design x Narratives, Philippine Womens College of Davao - School of Fine Arts and Design
2020
Filmmaker-speaker, Bangsamoro Short Film Festival, British Council Philippines
2018
Writer-speaker, Booklatan sa Bayan | National Book Development Board, Davao City
2017
“Self-publishing, local art movements”, Morning Light Art Gallery, Davao City
SELECTED ESSAYS, STORIES, EXHIBIT NOTES, RESPONSES
2024
“If the world and waters permit: on Gipaambit (2021)”, Letters from the Future: 35 years of CCP Gawad Alternatibo
“Counting, October 1950”, Dagmay: Literary Journal of the Davao Writers Guild
Un/Tamed, La Herencia, Davao City
2023
Umbilicus, KalawakanSpacetime, Quezon City
Response to Light, Leaks: A solo exhibition by Augustine Paredes, Foundry, Dubai
2022
CATipunan Vol. 4: “Kahel has a Few Fears”, Gantala Press
We are Gathered Here Today, Baraks Artist-run Space, Quezon City
2021
Long Night Stands with Lonely, Lonely Boys: Afterword, Artist book by Augustine Paredes
2018
“Three Cheers, the Godhead of Ritual“, TRAFFIC Vol. 2 published by MIKI LTD. and Project Space Pilipinas
2016
“Notes on the (Un)Spoken”, LIEU Magazine
debut documentary short
2021 “Mga Gipaambit Gikan sa Tubig”
(Whispers from the Waters of Mindanao)
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer, Cinematography
co-produced by
British Council Philippines
Film festivals
2024
Dokyumentado , Film Development Council of the Philippines, Cinematheque Centre Davao
2021
Winner 3rd Prize, Gawad Alternatibo (world premiere)
Nabunturan Film Festival
Mindanao Film Festival
2022
Cinema Rehiyon
Collaging Peace by Piece
CCP* Film Broadcast and New Media
Creative events
2024
Fête de la Musique pulse / ripples: films & performance, The Green House Cinema
2023
Gamâ: food + wine + music + art, Made Simple Restaurant
2022
Pista ng Kapuluan, Alabang Town Center
Screenings in artist-run spaces
2024
The Green House Cinema, Davao City
2022
Emerging Islands, La Union
Baraks, Quezon City
Reviewed
2021
Best Short Film, Society of Filipino Film Reviewers
Mentions
“Here and elsewhere: Reflections on a
Philippine regional cinema in flux”
by Jay Rosas for ArtsEquator Fellowship
Catalog
Daang Dokyu: home for Filipino documentaries
Cinemata: social issue films about the Asia-Pacific
debut film, debut narrative short
2020 “We Do Not Exist Here”
(Wala Mi Diri)
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer, Production Design
co-produced by
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (PH)
Film festivals
2021
Chuncheon International Film Festival, South Korea (world premiere)
Binisaya Film Festival
Creative events
2024
The Green House Cinema, Davao City
2023
La Herencia Art Kollective, Davao City
2020
Warehouse 44, Alserkal Avenue (UAE)
VIDEO ART
1. “Lingkod: Apparition” 2023
Green Papaya Art Projects, Roxas City
Jumpcut 4: Wala Aswang sa Capiz
2. “Ayo Tagbalay: To Come Apart, To Gather Together” 2021
CCP* Visual Arts and Museum Division
Tuloy Po Kayo Multi-arts Festival
SELECTED WORK FOR OTHER DIRECTORS
1. “Baboy Halas: Wailings in the Forest” 2016, Dir. Bagane Fiola
Screenplay, Production Assistant
2016 QCinema International Film Festival (PH)
2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)
2017 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival (DE)
2. “Pulangui” (River) 2018, Dir. Bagane Fiola
Screenplay, Production Design
2018 Best Production Design Nominee, Mindanao Film Festival
2019 Sharjah Film Platform (UAE)
3. “OctoGod” 2019, Dir. Shievar Olegario
Assistant Director
2024 The Criterion Channel
SELECTED FEATURES, INTERVIEWS, MENTIONS
ART+ MAGAZINE
Pagtilipon-Tipon: A Showcase of Mentorship and Artistic Collaboration by Marz Aglipay
PURVEYR
Art Fair Philippines and the Articulation of Residencies by Jean-Pierre Ditona
THE PHILIPPINE STAR
The Flux — and Flex — of Art Criticism by Scott Garceau
ARTFAIRPH/TALKS
Habitation and Creative Practice
ADOBO MAGAZINE
DAKILA’s Independence Day art exhibit showcases patriotic artworks centered on the country’s social issues by Coco Oei
CLAVEL MAGAZINE
3 Artists, All Women: What They Have To Say About The Davao Art Scene by Betsy Tulio
BRITISH COUNCIL PHILIPPINES
Art Of Peace Fellows
NGILNGIG FILM CONVERSATIONS
A Trial by Fire, Found Objects & Community Driven Design
TATLER ASIA
Art Fair PH 2024/Residencies: 5 artist-residencies to look out for by Gabriel Bohol
TATLER ASIA
Editor’s Picks: Over 100 artworks worth collecting at Art Fair Philippines 2024 by Franz Sorilla IV
THE NATIONAL NEWS
New UAE Artist Collective Puts Philippine Art in The Spotlight by Alexandra Chaves