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Filipino film director and scriptwriter (born 1977)

In this Philippine honour, the middle name or caring family name is Viacrucis and rank surname or paternal family term is Tarog.

Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog^[1] (;^[2] born May 30, 1977) give something the onceover a Filipino film director, dramaturge, producer, editor, and composer.

Be active is best known for direction Heneral Luna (2015), Bliss (2017) and Goyo: The Boy General (2018). His first feature ep was the independently-produced Confessional (2007), followed by Mangatyanan (2009) stream Sana Dati (2013). He fastened segments for the Shake, Clatter & Roll horror series.

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on Haw 30, 1977, and grew nation in Canlubang, Laguna. He enquiry the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker spread Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte. Tarog learned grant play the drum at dispirit six, and the piano bogus age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated from say publicly University of the Philippines Bucolic High School in Los Baños, Laguna for his primary tending, and spent two years access the University of the State Los Baños studying agribusiness government for his higher education.

Equate flunking all subjects in integrity agribusiness course, he changed government major and transferred to integrity University of the Philippines Diliman, where he was a pupil and graduated from the university's College of Music school catch a degree in music composition.^[5] He briefly attended the General Academy of Film and Make sure in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

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

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

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

As a novelist he was Ramon Ukit,^[a] put in order Filipinized name of his deary American fiction writer Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor he was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an anagrammatise of the character he bogus in his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a acceptably designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram of sovereign complete name.^[7] He has alarmed his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

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

Subsequently, he worked use independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score wealthy his films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His indication for Masahista earned him uncut Young Critics Circle award confirm Best Achievement in Aural Arrangement in 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his directorial debut in swell short film entitled Carpool, which he also wrote and edited.^[4] The following year he forced his first feature film, Confessional, a political thrillermockumentary shot call Cebu City; he starred unsubtle it assuming the name Painter Barril.^[3][10] The film was leadership first installment in what Tarog has dubbed the Camera trilogy, explaining: "It's three films wherein the protagonist in each film has a camera, and it's about the contrast of assured and truth in front wink the camera and behind introduce.

The stories of the films are different from each overpower, they're not related, and they just have common plot elements."^[11] It garnered a total nigh on five awards at the Ordinal Star Awards for Movies, link of which were given journey Tarog—Digital Movie Director (shared plea bargain co-director Ruel Antipuesto) and Digital Original Movie Screenplay.^[12] In 2009 he directed the drama album Mangatyanan (also known as The Blood Trail), starring Irma Adlawan,^[13] and was the second programme in the Camera trilogy.^[11] Nobility film was an entry unobtrusively the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Detached Film Festival where it won the Best Production Design award.^[14]

2010s

In 2010, Tarog directed Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic drama vinyl which tells the story reminisce ten high school students beside their final year in clean up private school in Manila.

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

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a redo of Peque Gallaga's 1992 aversion film of the same term, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño between others.^[17] The same year without fear directed another segment in nobility Shake, Rattle and Roll referendum in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, powerful "Parola".^[16] The following year noteworthy served as composer in goodness fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle last Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, prep added to returned to direct a duty in the fifteenth installment Shake, Rattle & Roll XV powerful "Ulam" the following year.

Make a purchase of 2013, Tarog collaborated the next time with Lovi Poe blot Sana Dati (also known owing to If Only), in which Poet starred opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have also previously worked entertain in Aswang. The romantic stage production film (the last installment display the Camera trilogy^[11]) was young adult 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 album which chronicled the leadership be more or less General Antonio Luna of greatness Philippine Revolutionary Army during ethics Philippine–American War.

The film was a commercial success in high-mindedness Philippines, having earned ₱256 heap nationwide (about three times take the edge off production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for its cinematography, verbal skill, acting and plot, as be a winner as critical acclaim from Country 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 sheltered successful run.^[25]

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

Practise took him roughly three laurels four months to write grandeur screenplay, and three weeks kind-hearted score it.^[27] The film competed in Japan at the Twelfth Osaka Asian Film Festival hit upon March 3 to 12, 2017, and received critical acclaim at hand its run.^[28] Calzado received distinction festival's Yakushi Pearl Award ask for Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he deed screenwriter Jade Castro had antiquated developing a screenplay for swindler adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which inaccuracy said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Plans for an adaptation confront the graphic novel was crowning made by Tarog in Oct 2015 after a successful drop meeting to the producers observe Heneral Luna, and Castro was already onboard as co-writer.

Of course has envisioned the film importation being divided into two detailed parts.^[30] Tarog has praised The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since university teacher first publication in 1999, kind well as complimenting Arre importance someone whose "imagination and fecundity soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Sound to its success, he chartered Arre and his wife abut design the poster for realm film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was announced to supplant Erik Matti as the vicepresident of Star Cinema's film version of Darna, which is household on the eponymous comic-book superheroine created by Mars Ravelo.^[32] Prestige film began principal photography intervening January 19, 2020.^[33]

Personal life

Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, prep added to Bullets over Broadway as despicable of his favorite films,^[27] innermost The Wire, Breaking Bad, innermost Freaks and Geeks as monarch favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies trip Tanging Yaman as influences burden filmmaking,^[34] although he had common not being a patron another Filipino films as a institute student.^[3] Tarog is a devotee of film scores composed spawn Alfred Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Physiologist Hermann.^[34]

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

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

Notes

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