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 14-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.

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS, SCREENING TALKBACKS


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

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