Confessional is an internationally awarded mockumentary

Mockumentary

A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...

 indie film by Jerrold Tarog

Jerrold Tarog

Jerrold Tarog is a multi-awarded Filipino film director, composer, writer, editor, and sound designer. All three films he has directed - Confessional, Mangatyanan, and Senior Year - have been critically acclaimed, receiving numerous awards. His Short Film "Faculty" has become a viral hit on...

 and Ruel Dahis Antipuesto. It won Best Film in the First Features Section of 10th Osian Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema

Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema

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 in New Delhi

New Delhi

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, India

India

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.

Plot summary

On a trip to Cebu

Cebu

Cebu is a province in the Philippines, consisting of Cebu Island and 167 surrounding islands. It is located to the east of Negros, to the west of Leyte and Bohol islands...

 to document the Sinulog Festival

Sinulog festival

The Sinulog is an annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines. The festival commemorates the Cebuano people's pagan origin, and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism....

 Ryan Pastor meets Lito Caliso, an erring politician, who confesses all the crimes he committed while in office before Ryan's camera.

Cast

• David Barril (aka Jerrold Tarog) as Ryan Pastor
• Publio Briones III as Lito Caliso
• Greg Fernandez as Miguel
• Donna Gimeno as Miguel's Wife
• Owee Salva as Monet Silva
• Paola Aseron as Kathy Escueta
• Jude Bacalso as Jhae Zaspa
• Bambi Beltran as Sister Ana Maria Teresa
• Archie Modequillo as Marcus
• Jay Roderick Rabin as Undo
• Ruel Rigor as Prof. Romulo Albaracin

Cinema One Originals

• Best Picture - Confessional
• Best Director - Jerrold Tarog and Ruel Dahis Antipuesto
• Best Screenplay - Ramon Ukit (aka Jerrold Tarog)
• Best Editing - Pats R. Ranyo (aka Jerrold Tarog)
• Best Supporting Actor - Publio Briones III
• Best Sound - Roger “TJ” Ladro (aka Jerrold Tarog)
• Star Cinema Special Award
  Star Cinema
  ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc. , is the wholly owned film production subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. It is the Philippines' largest film production, producing most of the highest grossing films in the Philippines.-1994:...
  
  

24th PMPC STAR AWARDS

• Best Film (Digital Category - Confessional
• Best Director - Jerrold Tarog and Ruel Dahis Antipuesto
• Best Screenplay - Ramon Ukit (aka Jerrold Tarog)
• Best Editing - Pats R. Ranyo (aka Jerrold Tarog)
• Best Sound - Roger “TJ” Ladro (aka Jerrold Tarog)

External links

• Confessional on Click the City

See Also

• Jerrold Tarog
  Jerrold Tarog
  Jerrold Tarog is a multi-awarded Filipino film director, composer, writer, editor, and sound designer. All three films he has directed - Confessional, Mangatyanan, and Senior Year - have been critically acclaimed, receiving numerous awards. His Short Film "Faculty" has become a viral hit on...
  
  
• Senior Year (film)
  Senior Year (film)
  Senior Year is a 2010 Philippine film directed by Jerrold Tarog, which tells the story of ten students of a private Catholic high school in Manila, as they go through the many transitions that come with their final year in high school...
  
  
• Mangatyanan
  Mangatyanan
  Mangatyanan is a 2009 Filipino independent film directed by Jerrold Tarog. The film was a finalist in the full-length feature category of the 2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival....
  
  
• Cinema of the Philippines
  Cinema of the Philippines
  Cinema of the Philippines started with the introduction of the first moving pictures to the country on January 1, 1897 at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila. The following year, local scenes were shot on film for the first time by a Spaniard, Antonio Ramos, using the Lumiere Cinematograph...