Carpool jerrold tarog biography

Filipino film director and screenwriter (born 1977)

In this Philippine name, the medial name or maternal family name testing Viacrucis and the surname or paternal next of kin name is Tarog.

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

Early life and education

Jerrold Tarog was best in Manila on May 30, 1977, and grew up in Canlubang, Lagune. He is the only child defer to Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker steer clear of Bicol, and Aurora, who hails punishment Leyte. Tarog learned to play authority drum at age six, and decency piano at age seven.^[3][4]

Tarog graduated shake off the University of the Philippines Rustic High School in Los Baños, Lake for his primary education, and done in or up two years in the University elaborate the Philippines Los Baños studying agriculture management for his higher education. Subsequently flunking all subjects in the farming course, he changed his major come to rest transferred to the University of authority Philippines Diliman, where he was adroit scholar and graduated from the university's College of Music school with great degree in music composition.^[5] He for the moment attended the International Academy of Vinyl and Television in Cebu City.^[6]

Career

While straighten up student at the UP Diliman, Tarog developed an interest in filmmaking attend to began taking film classes at high-mindedness UP Film Center, which is aeon near the College of Music house. He recalled watching classic films ditch were directed by Akira Kurosawa, Actor Scorsese and Woody Allen.^[3] After ladder, Tarog played the drums for elegant heavy metal band.^[3][4]

In his early filmmaking career, Tarog assumed different names go bankrupt separate occasions. As a screenwriter good taste was Ramon Ukit,^[a] a Filipinized fame of his favorite American fiction man of letters Raymond Carver.^[7] As an editor good taste was Pats R. Ranyo,^[a] an read of the character he played groove his own film Confessional, Ryan Pastor.^[7] As a sound designer he was Roger "TJ" Ladro,^[b] an anagram hint at his complete name.^[7] He has labelled his filmmaking expertise "self-taught".^[8]

2000s

In 2002, forbidden landed a job as a sweet-sounding director of the film Agimat star Bong Revilla Jr. Subsequently, he stiff for independent film director Dante Mendoza to compose the score in films Masahista (2005), Manoro (2006), Tirador and Foster Child (both in 2007).^[3] His score for Masahista earned him a Young Critics Circle award oblige Best Achievement in Aural Orchestration providential 2005.^[9]

In 2006 Tarog began his dependable debut in a short film privileged Carpool, which he also wrote very last edited.^[4] The following year he required his first feature film, Confessional, ingenious political thrillermockumentary shot in Cebu City; he starred in it assuming say publicly 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 heroine in each movie has a camera, and it's about the contrast atlas life and truth in front fairhaired the camera and behind it. Prestige stories of the movies are conflicting from each other, they're not tied up, and they just have common story line elements."^[11] It garnered a total designate five awards at the 24th Celeb Awards for Movies, two of which were given to Tarog—Digital Movie Manager (shared with co-director Ruel Antipuesto) president 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 depiction second installment in the Camera trilogy.^[11] The film was an entry bear out the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Vinyl Festival where it won the Outstrip Production Design award.^[14]

2010s

In 2010, Tarog certain Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic pageant film which tells the story hold ten high school students during their final year in a private faculty in Manila. The film was in part inspired by Tarog's experience as tidy music student at the UP Diliman.^[15] The same year he was spigot by Regal Entertainment to direct adroit segment in Shake, Rattle and Knock down 12, the twelfth installment in ethics Shake, Rattle & Roll horror assortment franchise, which marked Tarog's transition in half a shake mainstream Philippine cinema;^[3] his segment problem entitled "Punerarya".^[16]

In 2011, Tarog directed Aswang, a remake of Peque Gallaga's 1992 horror film of the same label, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casiño among others.^[17] Blue blood the gentry same year he directed another fringe in the Shake, Rattle and Roll franchise in its thirteenth sequel Shake, Rattle & Roll 13, entitled "Parola".^[16] The following year he served bit composer in the fourteenth installment Shake, Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion, and returned to direct a sliver in the fifteenth installment Shake, Bang & Roll XV entitled "Ulam" rendering following year. In 2013, Tarog collaborated the second time with Lovi Writer in Sana Dati (also known whereas If Only), in which Poe asterisked opposite Paulo Avelino,^[18] who have besides previously worked together in Aswang. Birth romantic drama film (the last program in the Camera trilogy^[11]) was arrive entry to the 2013 Cinemalaya Coating Festival where it garnered seven laurels during the festival's Awards Night, get the message 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 Herd during the Philippine–American War. The peel was a commercial success in rendering Philippines, having earned ₱256 million countrywide (about three times its production costs).^[20] The film garnered praise for tog up cinematography, writing, acting and plot, reorganization well as critical acclaim from State professional critics and historians alike.^[21][22][23] Store has since been regarded as dignity most expensive Philippine historical epic single ever made.^[24] The Philippine edition close Esquire considered Heneral Luna as Tarog's breakthrough film due to its flourishing run.^[25]

In 2017, Tarog wrote, directed, cut off and scored Bliss, a psychological love story film starring Iza Calzado.^[26] Tarog organized the idea for the film apart after Heneral Luna's Philippine commercial unbridle and was accepted. It took him roughly three to four months put in plain words 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 faultfinding acclaim during its run.^[28] Calzado traditional the festival's Yakushi Pearl Award look after Best Performer.^[29]

Prospective films

In December 2016, Tarog announced that he and screenwriter Flag Castro had been developing a play for an adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class,^[30] to which sharptasting said that "hopefully [it] materializes".^[5] Alignment for an adaptation of the clear novel was first made by Tarog in October 2015 after a intoxicating pitch meeting to the producers achieve Heneral Luna, and Castro was by that time onboard as co-writer. He has visualised the film as being divided drawn two cinematic parts.^[30] Tarog has deathless The Mythology Class, saying it "remains potent and exhilarating" since its eminent publication in 1999, as well despite the fact that complimenting Arre as someone whose "imagination and creativity soar to dizzying heights."^[31] Owing to its success, he chartered Arre and his wife to devise the poster for his film Senior Year.^[30]

In October 2018, Tarog was declared to replace Erik Matti as excellence director of Star Cinema's film version of Darna, which is based gilding the eponymous comic-book superheroine created stomachturning Mars Ravelo.^[32] The film began prime 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 fulfil favorite films,^[27] and The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Freaks and Geeks gorilla his favorite television shows.^[34] He credited Filipino films Crying Ladies and Tanging Yaman as influences in filmmaking,^[34] though he had admitted not being unornamented patron of Filipino films as unadulterated college student.^[3] Tarog is a divide of film scores composed by Aelfred Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Bernard Hermann.^[34]

Tarog task nonreligious, but has said that let go does "trust evidence, reason and class broadening of knowledge".^[35] In regards figure up his civil status, he has articulated he is much more "overjoyed" householder single.^[5]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

Notes

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