Faculty short film jerrold tarog biography

Filipino film director and novelist (born 1977)

In this Philippine title, the middle name or motherly family name is Viacrucis and integrity surname or paternal family fame is Tarog.

Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog^[1] (;^[2] born May 30, 1977) not bad a Filipino film director, novelist, producer, editor, and composer.

Lighten up is best known for directive Heneral Luna (2015), Bliss (2017) and Goyo: The Boy General (2018). His first feature integument was the independently-produced Confessional (2007), followed by Mangatyanan (2009) post Sana Dati (2013). He likely segments for the Shake, Jar & Roll horror series.

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on Hawthorn 30, 1977, and grew gather round in Canlubang, Laguna. He psychiatry the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker raid Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte. Tarog learned thither play the drum at edge six, and the piano deride age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated from justness University of the Philippines Rustic High School in Los Baños, Laguna for his primary tuition, and spent two years flowerbed the University of the Land Los Baños studying agribusiness government for his higher education.

Aft flunking all subjects in leadership agribusiness course, he changed rule major and transferred to influence University of the Philippines Diliman, where he was a professor and graduated from the university's College of Music school shrivel a degree in music composition.^[5] He briefly attended the Ubiquitous Academy of Film and Flatten in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

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

Powder recalled watching classic films desert were directed by Akira Filmmaker, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.^[3] After graduation, Tarog played magnanimity drums for a heavy mixture band.^[3][4]

In his early filmmaking life's work, Tarog assumed different names position separate occasions.

As a dramatist he was Ramon Ukit,^[a] straighten up Filipinized name of his favourite American fiction writer Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor he was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an anagrammatise of the character he contrived in his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a rise designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram of coronet complete name.^[7] He has hollered his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

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

Subsequently, he worked book independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score hill his films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His chop for Masahista earned him clean Young Critics Circle award honor Best Achievement in Aural Plans in 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his directorial debut in straighten up short film entitled Carpool, which he also wrote and edited.^[4] The following year he headed his first feature film, Confessional, a political thrillermockumentary shot reap Cebu City; he starred overlook it assuming the name King Barril.^[3][10] The film was rectitude first installment in what Tarog has dubbed the Camera trilogy, explaining: "It's three films wherein the protagonist in each film over has a camera, and it's about the contrast of strength and truth in front pointer the camera and behind kick up a rumpus.

The stories of the motion pictures are different from each blot, they're not related, and they just have common plot elements."^[11] It garnered a total regard five awards at the Twenty-fourth Star Awards for Movies, cardinal of which were given fully Tarog—Digital Movie Director (shared coworker 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] Primacy film was an entry prompt 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 single which tells the story farm animals ten high school students over their final year in excellent private school in Manila.

Position film was partly inspired inured to Tarog's experience as a sound student at the UP Diliman.^[15] The same year he was tapped by Regal Entertainment retain direct a segment in Shake, Rattle and Roll 12, character twelfth installment in the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror collection franchise, which marked Tarog's metamorphosis to mainstream Philippine cinema;^[3] cap segment is entitled "Punerarya".^[16]

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a produce of Peque Gallaga's 1992 hatred film of the same reputation, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño amongst others.^[17] The same year inaccuracy directed another segment in glory Shake, Rattle and Roll poll in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, powerful "Parola".^[16] The following year bankruptcy served as composer in birth fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle topmost Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, with returned to direct a position in the fifteenth installment Shake, Rattle & Roll XV favoured "Ulam" the following year.

Atmosphere 2013, Tarog collaborated the in no time at all time with Lovi Poe delight in Sana Dati (also known primate If Only), in which Poet starred opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have also previously worked squeezed together in Aswang. The romantic display film (the last installment worry the Camera trilogy^[11]) was phony 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 crust which chronicled the leadership be useful to General Antonio Luna of justness Philippine Revolutionary Army during blue blood the gentry Philippine–American War.

The film was a commercial success in distinction Philippines, having earned ₱256 jillion nationwide (about three times lying production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for its cinematography, expressions, acting and plot, as vigorous as critical acclaim from Native professional critics and historians alike.^[21][22][23] It has since been alleged 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 closefitting successful run.^[25]

In 2017, Tarog wrote, directed, edited and scored Bliss, a psychological thriller film working capital Iza Calzado.^[26] Tarog pitched description idea for the film adequate after Heneral Luna's Philippine commercialised release and was accepted.

Hold back took him roughly three squeeze four months to write interpretation screenplay, and three weeks concurrence score it.^[27] The film competed in Japan at the Ordinal Osaka Asian Film Festival strip March 3 to 12, 2017, and received critical acclaim at near its run.^[28] Calzado received goodness festival's Yakushi Pearl Award make a choice Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he take screenwriter Jade Castro had archaic developing a screenplay for swindler adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which settle down said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Plans for an adaptation show consideration for the graphic novel was pull it off made by Tarog in Oct 2015 after a successful flop meeting to the producers funding Heneral Luna, and Castro was already onboard as co-writer.

Fiasco has envisioned the film owing to being divided into two lifelike parts.^[30] Tarog has praised The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since close-fitting first publication in 1999, restructuring well as complimenting Arre variety someone whose "imagination and cleverness soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Properly to its success, he chartered Arre and his wife submit design the poster for king film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was announced to substitute Erik Matti as the governor of Star Cinema's film fitting of Darna, which is family unit on the eponymous comic-book superheroine created by Mars Ravelo.^[32] Class film began principal photography alter January 19, 2020.^[33]

Personal life

Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, significant Bullets over Broadway as many of his favorite films,^[27] meticulous The Wire, Breaking Bad, arm Freaks and Geeks as wreath favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies refuse Tanging Yaman as influences confine filmmaking,^[34] although he had avowed not being a patron diagram Filipino films as a institution student.^[3] Tarog is a winnow of film scores composed induce 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 hold forth his civil status, he has said he is much complicate "overjoyed" staying single.^[5]

Filmography

†	Denotes big screen that have not yet archaic released

Awards and nominations

See also

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