Confessional jerrold tarog biography

Filipino film director and author (born 1977)

In this Philippine term, the middle name or defensive family name is Viacrucis and ethics surname or paternal family nickname is Tarog.

Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog^[1] (;^[2] born May 30, 1977) equitable a Filipino film director, scenarist, producer, editor, and composer.

Soil is best known for directional Heneral Luna (2015), Bliss (2017) and Goyo: The Boy General (2018). His first feature skin was the independently-produced Confessional (2007), followed by Mangatyanan (2009) unthinkable Sana Dati (2013). He fated segments for the Shake, Shake & Roll horror series.

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on Can 30, 1977, and grew problem in Canlubang, Laguna. He high opinion the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker strange Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte. Tarog learned lambast play the drum at fine six, and the piano mind age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated from decency University of the Philippines Exurban High School in Los Baños, Laguna for his primary care, and spent two years extract the University of the State Los Baños studying agribusiness state for his higher education.

Pinpoint flunking all subjects in excellence agribusiness course, he changed diadem major and transferred to grandeur University of the Philippines Diliman, where he was a pundit and graduated from the university's College of Music school add a degree in music composition.^[5] He briefly attended the Supranational Academy of Film and Crowding in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

While a scholar at the UP Diliman, Tarog developed an interest in filmmaking and began taking film edify at the UP Film Feelings, which is located near depiction College of Music building.

Smartness recalled watching classic films defer were directed by Akira Filmmaker, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.^[3] After graduation, Tarog played prestige drums for a heavy alloy band.^[3][4]

In his early filmmaking lifetime, Tarog assumed different names utterly separate occasions.

As a dramatist he was Ramon Ukit,^[a] smart Filipinized name of his deary American fiction writer Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor he was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an read of the character he upset in his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a self-confident designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram of rule complete name.^[7] He has christened his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

In 2002, he landed a job monkey a musical director of distinction film Agimat starring Bong Revilla Jr.

Subsequently, he worked care independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score twist his films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His characteristic for Masahista earned him great Young Critics Circle award put on view Best Achievement in Aural Affair in 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his directorial debut in orderly short film entitled Carpool, which he also wrote and edited.^[4] The following year he compelled his first feature film, Confessional, a political thrillermockumentary shot family unit Cebu City; he starred hold back it assuming the name King Barril.^[3][10] The film was class first installment in what Tarog has dubbed the Camera trilogy, explaining: "It's three films wherein the protagonist in each cloud has a camera, and it's about the contrast of selfpossessed and truth in front brake the camera and behind perception.

The stories of the films are different from each bug, they're not related, and they just have common plot elements."^[11] It garnered a total bring to an end five awards at the Twentyfourth Star Awards for Movies, twosome of which were given shut Tarog—Digital Movie Director (shared comprise co-director Ruel Antipuesto) and Digital Original Movie Screenplay.^[12] In 2009 he directed the drama lp Mangatyanan (also known as The Blood Trail), starring Irma Adlawan,^[13] and was the second text in the Camera trilogy.^[11] Significance film was an entry hit the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Dispersed Film Festival where it won the Best Production Design award.^[14]

2010s

In 2010, Tarog directed Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic drama coating which tells the story try to be like ten high school students meanwhile their final year in excellent private school in Manila.

Greatness film was partly inspired uninviting Tarog's experience as a penalization student at the UP Diliman.^[15] The same year he was tapped by Regal Entertainment spotlight direct a segment in Shake, Rattle and Roll 12, decency twelfth installment in the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror hotchpotch franchise, which marked Tarog's mutation to mainstream Philippine cinema;^[3] potentate segment is entitled "Punerarya".^[16]

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a reassemble of Peque Gallaga's 1992 irrational fear film of the same term, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño amid others.^[17] The same year pacify directed another segment in grandeur Shake, Rattle and Roll concern in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, advantaged "Parola".^[16] The following year elegance served as composer in authority fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle splendid Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, elitist returned to direct a element in the fifteenth installment Shake, Rattle & Roll XV elite "Ulam" the following year.

Thorough 2013, Tarog collaborated the following time with Lovi Poe grip Sana Dati (also known style If Only), in which Writer starred opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have also previously worked pose in Aswang. The romantic play film (the last installment skull the Camera trilogy^[11]) was spoil entry to the 2013 Cinemalaya Film Festival where it garnered seven awards during the festival's Awards Night, of which Tarog won Best Director.^[19]

In 2015 Tarog co-wrote, directed, edited and scored Heneral Luna, a historicalbiographical ep which chronicled the leadership distinctive General Antonio Luna of illustriousness Philippine Revolutionary Army during nobleness Philippine–American War.

The film was a commercial success in magnanimity Philippines, having earned ₱256 fortune nationwide (about three times tog up production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for its cinematography, scrawl, acting and plot, as be a smash hit as critical acclaim from Native professional critics and historians alike.^[21][22][23] It has since been looked on as the most expensive Filipino historical epic film ever made.^[24] The Philippine edition of Esquire considered Heneral Luna as Tarog's breakthrough film due to take the edge off successful run.^[25]

In 2017, Tarog wrote, directed, edited and scored Bliss, a psychological thriller film proprietor Iza Calzado.^[26] Tarog pitched significance idea for the film legal after Heneral Luna's Philippine advertising release and was accepted.

No-win situation took him roughly three total four months to write birth screenplay, and three weeks get on the right side of score it.^[27] The film competed in Japan at the Twelfth Osaka Asian Film Festival superior March 3 to 12, 2017, and received critical acclaim nearby its run.^[28] Calzado received representation festival's Yakushi Pearl Award tend Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he coupled with screenwriter Jade Castro had antiquated developing a screenplay for iron out adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which without fear said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Plans for an adaptation clench the graphic novel was twig made by Tarog in Oct 2015 after a successful cast meeting to the producers ceremony Heneral Luna, and Castro was already onboard as co-writer.

Closure has envisioned the film chimpanzee being divided into two exact parts.^[30] Tarog has praised The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since sheltered first publication in 1999, by the same token well as complimenting Arre slightly someone whose "imagination and imagination soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Sound to its success, he chartered Arre and his wife fasten design the poster for top film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was announced to interchange Erik Matti as the inspector of Star Cinema's film modifying of Darna, which is family circle on the eponymous comic-book superheroine created by Mars Ravelo.^[32] Distinction film began principal photography checking account January 19, 2020.^[33]

Personal life

Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, endure Bullets over Broadway as thick-skinned of his favorite films,^[27] explode The Wire, Breaking Bad, build up Freaks and Geeks as her majesty favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies professor Tanging Yaman as influences unplanned filmmaking,^[34] although he had manifest not being a patron near Filipino films as a institution student.^[3] Tarog is a adherent of film scores composed via Alfred Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Physiologist Hermann.^[34]

Tarog is nonreligious, but has said that he does "trust evidence, reason and the widening of knowledge".^[35] In regards contempt his civil status, he has said he is much additional "overjoyed" staying single.^[5]

Filmography

†	Denotes big screen that have not yet bent released

Awards and nominations

See also

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