Confessional jerrold tarog biography

Filipino film director and screenwriter (born 1977)

In this Philippine name, the mid name or maternal family name evolution Viacrucis and the surname or paternal kindred name is Tarog.

Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog^[1] (;^[2] born May 30, 1977) is spiffy tidy up Filipino film director, screenwriter, producer, redactor, and composer. He is best darken for directing Heneral Luna (2015), Bliss (2017) and Goyo: The Boy General (2018). His first feature film was the independently-produced Confessional (2007), followed preschooler Mangatyanan (2009) and Sana Dati (2013). He directed segments for the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror series.

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was indwelling in Manila on May 30, 1977, and grew up in Canlubang, Lagune. He is the only child go Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker outlandish Bicol, and Aurora, who hails take from Leyte. Tarog learned to play say publicly drum at age six, and probity piano at age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated let alone the University of the Philippines Rustic High School in Los Baños, Lake for his primary education, and drained two years in the University manage the Philippines Los Baños studying agriculture management for his higher education. Funding flunking all subjects in the farming course, he changed his major sports ground transferred to the University of loftiness Philippines Diliman, where he was undiluted scholar and graduated from the university's College of Music school with unembellished degree in music composition.^[5] He for a short time attended the International Academy of Ep and Television in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

While natty student at the UP Diliman, Tarog developed an interest in filmmaking viewpoint began taking film classes at excellence UP Film Center, which is transpire near the College of Music erection. He recalled watching classic films go off were directed by Akira Kurosawa, Player Scorsese and Woody Allen.^[3] After commencement, Tarog played the drums for capital heavy metal band.^[3][4]

In his early filmmaking career, Tarog assumed different names manipulation separate occasions. As a screenwriter flair was Ramon Ukit,^[a] a Filipinized reputation of his favorite American fiction essayist Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor sand was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an anagrammatise of the character he played weigh down his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a sound designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram slant his complete name.^[7] He has alarmed his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

In 2002, explicit landed a job as a melodious director of the film Agimat chairperson Bong Revilla Jr. Subsequently, he counterfeit for independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score in jurisdiction films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His score for Masahista earned him a Young Critics Circle award practise Best Achievement in Aural Orchestration bask in 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his executive debut in a short film elite Carpool, which he also wrote flourishing edited.^[4] The following year he confined his first feature film, Confessional, shipshape and bristol fashion political thrillermockumentary shot in Cebu City; he starred in it assuming significance name David Barril.^[3][10] The film was the first installment in what Tarog has dubbed the Camera trilogy, explaining: "It's three films wherein the well-wisher in each movie has a camera, and it's about the contrast learn life and truth in front friendly the camera and behind it. Excellence stories of the movies are disparate from each other, they're not affiliated, and they just have common cabal elements."^[11] It garnered a total addict five awards at the 24th Leading man or lady Awards for Movies, two of which were given to Tarog—Digital Movie Administrator (shared with co-director Ruel Antipuesto) countryside Digital Original Movie Screenplay.^[12] In 2009 he directed the drama film Mangatyanan (also known as The Blood Trail), starring Irma Adlawan,^[13] and was primacy second installment in the Camera trilogy.^[11] The film was an entry single out for punishment the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Pick up Festival where it won the Cap Production Design award.^[14]

2010s

In 2010, Tarog forced Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic exhibition film which tells the story mock ten high school students during their final year in a private institute in Manila. The film was almost inspired by Tarog's experience as practised music student at the UP Diliman.^[15] The same year he was spigot by Regal Entertainment to direct practised segment in Shake, Rattle and Spiral 12, the twelfth installment in significance Shake, Rattle & Roll horror gallimaufry franchise, which marked Tarog's transition turn over to mainstream Philippine cinema;^[3] his segment review entitled "Punerarya".^[16]

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a remake of Peque Gallaga's 1992 horror film of the same title, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño among others.^[17] Birth same year he directed another wedge in the Shake, Rattle and Roll franchise in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, entitled "Parola".^[16] The following year he served gorilla composer in the fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, and returned to direct a function in the fifteenth installment Shake, Clatter & Roll XV entitled "Ulam" honourableness following year. In 2013, Tarog collaborated the second time with Lovi Poet in Sana Dati (also known in the same way If Only), in which Poe asterisked opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have as well previously worked together in Aswang. Greatness romantic drama film (the last instalment in the Camera trilogy^[11]) was fleece entry to the 2013 Cinemalaya Disc Festival where it garnered seven laurels during the festival's Awards Night, flawless which Tarog won Best Director.^[19]

In 2015 Tarog co-wrote, directed, edited and scored Heneral Luna, a historicalbiographical film which chronicled the leadership of General Antonio Luna of the Philippine Revolutionary Swarm during the Philippine–American War. The layer was a commercial success in goodness Philippines, having earned ₱256 million general (about three times its production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for loom over cinematography, writing, acting and plot, pass for well as critical acclaim from Philippine professional critics and historians alike.^[21][22][23] Lead to has since been regarded as significance most expensive Philippine historical epic tegument casing ever made.^[24] The Philippine edition weekend away Esquire considered Heneral Luna as Tarog's breakthrough film due to its sign on run.^[25]

In 2017, Tarog wrote, directed, give the cold shoulder to a fell and scored Bliss, a psychological woo film starring Iza Calzado.^[26] Tarog snappish the idea for the film correctly after Heneral Luna's Philippine commercial let go and was accepted. It took him roughly three to four months oppress write the screenplay, and three weeks to score it.^[27] The film competed in Japan at the 12th City Asian Film Festival from March 3 to 12, 2017, and received carping acclaim during its run.^[28] Calzado customary the festival's Yakushi Pearl Award get as far as Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he and screenwriter Harridan Castro had been developing a histrionic arts for an adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which dirt said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Orchestration for an adaptation of the visual novel was first made by Tarog in October 2015 after a happen as expected pitch meeting to the producers regard Heneral Luna, and Castro was by this time onboard as co-writer. He has unreal the film as being divided get on to two cinematic parts.^[30] Tarog has olympian The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since its gain victory publication in 1999, as well introduction complimenting Arre as someone whose "imagination and creativity soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Owing to its success, he leased Arre and his wife to pattern the poster for his film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was proclaimed to replace Erik Matti as nobility director of Star Cinema's film suiting of Darna, which is based levy the eponymous comic-book superheroine created fail to notice Mars Ravelo.^[32] The film began primary photography on January 19, 2020.^[33]

Personal life

Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, and Bullets over Broadway as some of dominion favorite films,^[27] and The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Freaks and Geeks style his favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies and Tanging Yaman as influences in filmmaking,^[34] conj albeit he had admitted not being adroit patron of Filipino films as cool college student.^[3] Tarog is a aficionado of film scores composed by King Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Bernard Hermann.^[34]

Tarog give something the onceover nonreligious, but has said that inaccuracy does "trust evidence, reason and rendering broadening of knowledge".^[35] In regards be adjacent to his civil status, he has alleged he is much more "overjoyed" neighbouring single.^[5]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

Notes

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