1. Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog is a Filipino film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and composer.
21 Facts About Jerrold Tarog
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Jerrold Tarog is best known for directing Heneral Luna, Bliss and Goyo: The Boy General.
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Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on May 30,1977, and grew up in Dapdap St CERIS 1, Canlubang, Laguna.
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Jerrold Tarog is the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker from Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte.
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Jerrold Tarog went to elementary school at Mary Help of Christians School and for highschool was accepted and graduated from the University of the Philippines Rural High School in Los Banos, Laguna for his primary education, and spent two years in the University of the Philippines Los Banos studying agribusiness management for his higher education.
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Jerrold Tarog briefly attended the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu City.
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Jerrold Tarog recalled watching classic films that were directed by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.
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In 2006 Jerrold Tarog began his directorial debut in a short film entitled Carpool, which he wrote and edited.
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In 2010, Jerrold Tarog directed Senior Year, a coming-of-age romantic drama film which tells the story of ten high school students during their final year in a private school in Manila.
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In 2011, Jerrold Tarog directed Aswang, a remake of Peque Gallaga's 1992 horror film of the same name, which stars Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, and Albie Casino among others.
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In 2013, Jerrold Tarog collaborated the second time with Lovi Poe in Sana Dati, in which Poe starred opposite Paulo Avelino, who have previously worked together in Aswang.
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The romantic drama film was an entry to the 2013 Cinemalaya Film Festival where it garnered seven awards during the festival's Awards Night, of which Jerrold Tarog won Best Director.
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In 2017, Jerrold Tarog wrote, directed, edited and scored Bliss, a psychological thriller film starring Iza Calzado.
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Jerrold Tarog pitched the idea for the film right after Heneral Lunas Philippine commercial release and was accepted.
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In December 2016, Jerrold Tarog announced that he and screenwriter Jade Castro had been developing a screenplay for an adaptation of Arnold Arre's The Mythology Class, to which he said that "hopefully [it] materializes".
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Jerrold Tarog has envisioned the film as being divided into two cinematic parts.
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In October 2018, Jerrold Tarog was announced to replace Erik Matti as the director of Star Cinema's film adaptation of Darna, which is based on the eponymous comic-book superheroine created by Mars Ravelo.
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Jerrold Tarog has cited Se7en, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, and Bullets over Broadway as some of his favorite films, and The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Freaks and Geeks as his favorite television shows.
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Jerrold Tarog credited Filipino films Crying Ladies and Tanging Yaman as influences in filmmaking, although he had admitted not being a patron of Filipino films as a college student.
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Jerrold Tarog is a fan of film scores composed by Alfred Hitchcock's frequent collaborator Bernard Hermann.
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Jerrold Tarog is nonreligious, but has said that he does "trust evidence, reason and the broadening of knowledge".