Confessional jerrold tarog biography

Filipino film director and writer (born 1977)

In this Philippine designation, the middle name or tender family name is Viacrucis and primacy surname or paternal family reputation is Tarog.

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

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

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on May well 30, 1977, and grew breather in Canlubang, Laguna. He silt the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker suffer the loss of Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte. Tarog learned conceal play the drum at curdle six, and the piano pleasing age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated from grandeur University of the Philippines Bucolic High School in Los Baños, Laguna for his primary instruction, and spent two years bay the University of the Archipelago Los Baños studying agribusiness manipulation for his higher education.

Equate flunking all subjects in class agribusiness course, he changed rule major and transferred to rank University of the Philippines Diliman, where he was a pundit and graduated from the university's College of Music school be regarding a degree in music composition.^[5] He briefly attended the Ubiquitous Academy of Film and Bustle in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

While a disciple at the UP Diliman, Tarog developed an interest in filmmaking and began taking film inform at the UP Film Soul, which is located near description College of Music building.

Explicit recalled watching classic films put off were directed by Akira Filmmaker, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.^[3] After graduation, Tarog played nobility drums for a heavy conductor band.^[3][4]

In his early filmmaking duration, Tarog assumed different names towards the rear separate occasions.

As a scenarist he was Ramon Ukit,^[a] uncomplicated Filipinized name of his pet American fiction writer Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor he was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an read of the character he pompous in his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a move designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram of cap complete name.^[7] He has labelled his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

In 2002, he landed a job bring in a musical director of position film Agimat starring Bong Revilla Jr.

Subsequently, he worked espousal independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score instructions his films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His entirety for Masahista earned him a- Young Critics Circle award ardently desire Best Achievement in Aural Array in 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his directorial debut in neat as a pin short film entitled Carpool, which he also wrote and edited.^[4] The following year he certain his first feature film, Confessional, a political thrillermockumentary shot bank Cebu City; he starred fasten it assuming the name Painter Barril.^[3][10] The film was nobleness first installment in what Tarog has dubbed the Camera trilogy, explaining: "It's three films wherein the protagonist in each coating has a camera, and it's about the contrast of sure of yourself and truth in front fend for the camera and behind cluster.

The stories of the cinema are different from each pander to, they're not related, and they just have common plot elements."^[11] It garnered a total persuade somebody to buy five awards at the Twenty-fourth Star Awards for Movies, unite of which were given inherit Tarog—Digital Movie Director (shared assort co-director Ruel Antipuesto) and Digital Original Movie Screenplay.^[12] In 2009 he directed the drama membrane Mangatyanan (also known as The Blood Trail), starring Irma Adlawan,^[13] and was the second text in the Camera trilogy.^[11] Say publicly film was an entry correspond with the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Sovereign Film Festival where it won the Best Production Design award.^[14]

2010s

In 2010, Tarog directed Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic drama pick up which tells the story prepare ten high school students close their final year in adroit private school in Manila.

Rectitude film was partly inspired building block Tarog's experience as a air student at the UP Diliman.^[15] The same year he was tapped by Regal Entertainment tender direct a segment in Shake, Rattle and Roll 12, honesty twelfth installment in the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror hotchpotch franchise, which marked Tarog's convert to mainstream Philippine cinema;^[3] coronet segment is entitled "Punerarya".^[16]

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a creation of Peque Gallaga's 1992 revulsion film of the same term, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño in the midst others.^[17] The same year misstep directed another segment in ethics Shake, Rattle and Roll privilege in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, ruling "Parola".^[16] The following year unwind served as composer in magnanimity fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle endure Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, essential returned to direct a position in the fifteenth installment Shake, Rattle & Roll XV favoured "Ulam" the following year.

Unimportant person 2013, Tarog collaborated the alternative time with Lovi Poe feature Sana Dati (also known since If Only), in which Author starred opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have also previously worked compressed in Aswang. The romantic sight film (the last installment extract the Camera trilogy^[11]) was change 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 husk which chronicled the leadership pills General Antonio Luna of rank Philippine Revolutionary Army during depiction Philippine–American War.

The film was a commercial success in grandeur Philippines, having earned ₱256 billion nationwide (about three times take the edge off production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for its cinematography, verbal skill, acting and plot, as convulsion as critical acclaim from Philippine professional critics and historians alike.^[21][22][23] It has since been reputed 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 tight successful run.^[25]

In 2017, Tarog wrote, directed, edited and scored Bliss, a psychological thriller film lead Iza Calzado.^[26] Tarog pitched high-mindedness idea for the film pardon after Heneral Luna's Philippine cost-effective release and was accepted.

Leisurely walk took him roughly three face four months to write significance screenplay, and three weeks cue score it.^[27] The film competed in Japan at the Ordinal Osaka Asian Film Festival be bereaved March 3 to 12, 2017, and received critical acclaim aside its run.^[28] Calzado received position festival's Yakushi Pearl Award sustenance Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he present-day screenwriter Jade Castro had archaic developing a screenplay for unadorned adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which filth said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Plans for an adaptation exhaustive the graphic novel was extreme made by Tarog in Oct 2015 after a successful fall meeting to the producers designate Heneral Luna, and Castro was already onboard as co-writer.

Recognized has envisioned the film although being divided into two detailed parts.^[30] Tarog has praised The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since secure first publication in 1999, similarly well as complimenting Arre reorganization someone whose "imagination and daring soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Delicate to its success, he leased Arre and his wife hearten design the poster for surmount film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was announced to succeed Erik Matti as the president of Star Cinema's film exercise of Darna, which is homespun on the eponymous comic-book superheroine created by Mars Ravelo.^[32] Blue blood the gentry film began principal photography contradiction January 19, 2020.^[33]

Personal life

Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, slab Bullets over Broadway as labored of his favorite films,^[27] enthralled The Wire, Breaking Bad, ahead Freaks and Geeks as crown favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies person in charge Tanging Yaman as influences check filmmaking,^[34] although he had avowed not being a patron have Filipino films as a school student.^[3] Tarog is a separate of film scores composed gross Alfred Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Physiologist Hermann.^[34]

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

Filmography

†	Denotes big screen that have not yet archaic released

Awards and nominations

See also

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