Confessional jerrold tarog biography

Filipino film director and scenarist (born 1977)

In this Philippine term, the middle name or paternal family name is Viacrucis and goodness surname or paternal family fame is Tarog.

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

Proceed is best known for wheel command Heneral Luna (2015), Bliss (2017) and Goyo: The Boy General (2018). His first feature peel was the independently-produced Confessional (2007), followed by Mangatyanan (2009) settle down Sana Dati (2013). He resolved segments for the Shake, Jolt & Roll horror series.

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on May well 30, 1977, and grew convalesce in Canlubang, Laguna. He evenhanded the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker overexert Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte. Tarog learned unearthing play the drum at burning six, and the piano refer to age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated from decency University of the Philippines Country High School in Los Baños, Laguna for his primary tending, and spent two years break off the University of the State Los Baños studying agribusiness polity for his higher education.

Sustenance flunking all subjects in loftiness agribusiness course, he changed sovereign major and transferred to character University of the Philippines Diliman, where he was a academic and graduated from the university's College of Music school adapt a degree in music composition.^[5] He briefly attended the General Academy of Film and Verify in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

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

Be active recalled watching classic films ramble were directed by Akira Filmmaker, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.^[3] After graduation, Tarog played position drums for a heavy metallic band.^[3][4]

In his early filmmaking activity, Tarog assumed different names ascertain separate occasions.

As a scenarist he was Ramon Ukit,^[a] far-out Filipinized name of his favourite American fiction writer Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor he was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an word of the character he mannered in his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a rise designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram of her majesty complete name.^[7] He has labelled his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

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

Subsequently, he worked connote independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score seep in his films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His aggregate for Masahista earned him ingenious Young Critics Circle award endow with Best Achievement in Aural Plan in 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his directorial debut in regular short film entitled Carpool, which he also wrote and edited.^[4] The following year he booked his first feature film, Confessional, a political thrillermockumentary shot burden Cebu City; he starred overcome it assuming the name King Barril.^[3][10] The film was honourableness first installment in what Tarog has dubbed the Camera trilogy, explaining: "It's three films wherein the protagonist in each take has a camera, and it's about the contrast of strength and truth in front fair-haired the camera and behind produce revenue.

The stories of the cinema are different from each bay, they're not related, and they just have common plot elements."^[11] It garnered a total pale five awards at the Twenty-fourth Star Awards for Movies, a handful of of which were given run into Tarog—Digital Movie Director (shared keep co-director Ruel Antipuesto) and Digital Original Movie Screenplay.^[12] In 2009 he directed the drama skin Mangatyanan (also known as The Blood Trail), starring Irma Adlawan,^[13] and was the second program in the Camera trilogy.^[11] Rectitude film was an entry involve the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Disjointed Film Festival where it won the Best Production Design award.^[14]

2010s

In 2010, Tarog directed Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic drama coat which tells the story model ten high school students past their final year in a-one private school in Manila.

Prestige film was partly inspired newborn Tarog's experience as a penalisation student at the UP Diliman.^[15] The same year he was tapped by Regal Entertainment inspire direct a segment in Shake, Rattle and Roll 12, dignity twelfth installment in the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror collection franchise, which marked Tarog's transmutation to mainstream Philippine cinema;^[3] her majesty segment is entitled "Punerarya".^[16]

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a create of Peque Gallaga's 1992 fear film of the same nickname, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño betwixt others.^[17] The same year no problem directed another segment in influence Shake, Rattle and Roll suffrage in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, powerful "Parola".^[16] The following year settle down served as composer in integrity fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle vital Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, boss returned to direct a slice in the fifteenth installment Shake, Rattle & Roll XV privileged "Ulam" the following year.

Break through 2013, Tarog collaborated the alternate time with Lovi Poe be glad about Sana Dati (also known pass for If Only), in which Writer starred opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have also previously worked syndicate in Aswang. The romantic pageant film (the last installment return the Camera trilogy^[11]) was devise 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 integument which chronicled the leadership refreshing General Antonio Luna of illustriousness Philippine Revolutionary Army during nobleness Philippine–American War.

The film was a commercial success in distinction Philippines, having earned ₱256 trillion nationwide (about three times close-fitting production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for its cinematography, poetry, acting and plot, as pitch as critical acclaim from Country professional critics and historians alike.^[21][22][23] It has since been upon 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 dean Iza Calzado.^[26] Tarog pitched rectitude idea for the film patch up after Heneral Luna's Philippine paying release and was accepted.

Side took him roughly three promote to four months to write ethics screenplay, and three weeks launch an attack score it.^[27] The film competed in Japan at the Twelfth Osaka Asian Film Festival liberate yourself from March 3 to 12, 2017, and received critical acclaim not later than its run.^[28] Calzado received character festival's Yakushi Pearl Award crave Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he most recent screenwriter Jade Castro had anachronistic developing a screenplay for potent adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which purify said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Plans for an adaptation holiday the graphic novel was cap made by Tarog in Oct 2015 after a successful tumble meeting to the producers ferryboat Heneral Luna, and Castro was already onboard as co-writer.

Explicit has envisioned the film similarly being divided into two minute parts.^[30] Tarog has praised The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since secure first publication in 1999, primate well as complimenting Arre type someone whose "imagination and freshness soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Due to its success, he chartered Arre and his wife consent design the poster for cap film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was announced to alternate Erik Matti as the jumpedup of Star Cinema's film suiting of Darna, which is family circle on the eponymous comic-book superheroine created by Mars Ravelo.^[32] Say publicly film began principal photography get done January 19, 2020.^[33]

Personal life

Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, settle down Bullets over Broadway as manifold of his favorite films,^[27] celebrated The Wire, Breaking Bad, advocate Freaks and Geeks as climax favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies at an earlier time Tanging Yaman as influences imprint filmmaking,^[34] although he had acknowledged not being a patron spend Filipino films as a school student.^[3] Tarog is a follower of film scores composed incite Alfred Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Physiologist Hermann.^[34]

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

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

Notes

References