User:Jonnybgoode44/Sandbox John Soares

John Allen Soares is an award-winning independent filmmaker and viral video star from Hughson, CA known for his short videos and webisodes on YouTube. Soares's videos are known for mixing martial arts action with quirky comedy.

Soares was born in Turlock, CA on June 22, 1981. Growning up on an almond farm, he attended Hughson High School, then spent a brief time at Modesto Junior College beginning in 1999 studying film, where he met future partners Ben Beames and Justin Spurlock. Soares won several international film festival awards for films he made as a student, including the Shocker Award for best Fantasy Short Film for "Tao of the Meteor Serpent" and Shockerfest 2007 Gorilla Software Award and Best Actor, SciFi/Fantasy for his film "Gauntlet of Sorrow."

Background
In 2001, Soares co-founded the independent film group WestHavenBrook with Beames and Spurlock. Their most notable collaboration was on the award-winning 2004 four-part short film Sockbaby, co-directed by Soares and Douglas TenNapel, which starred Soares. Jon and Dan Heder and Doug Jones co-star in the fourth installment of the series. Sockbaby won the Channy award for best fight choreography at Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon's Channel 101.

Soares was also featured in the screen fighting episode of IndyMogul: BFX with Erik Beck.

Current projects
Soares' current projects include the dieselpunk action series The Danger Element (The Adventures of Battle Jitni), co-starring Doug Jones, which Soares is directing as well as starring in, and a spoof of Japanese Super Sentai-style shows called Go Sukashi!, in association with Watanabe Entertainment and Dentsu, based on a character by Shoko Nakagawa (who appears in the film), produced by Douglas TenNapel and co-starring Spurlock and Brooke Brodack.

Viral videos
Soares also stars in a series of quirky webvideo shorts called The Vacuum Consortium, now in their third season, where he plays Agamemnon Tiberius Vacuum, a would-be alien from "Planet 3" bent on world domination. "Vacuum" has collaborated in the past with other popular internet personalities including Doctor Steel (whom he claims he "met at an awkward super villain mixer party in Burbank, California hosted by Bill Gates" ) and Brooke Brodack (whom he calls his nemesis, "The Brodack").