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John Allen Soares is an award-winning independent film

Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...

maker, martial arts choreographer

Stage combat

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, actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

and viral video

Viral video

A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email...

star from Hughson, CA known for his short videos and webisode

Webisode

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s on YouTube

YouTube

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. Soares's videos are known for mixing martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

action with quirky comedy.

Soares was born in Turlock, CA on June 22, 1981. Growing up on an almond

Almond

The almond , is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. Almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree...

farm, he attended Hughson High School, then spent a brief time at Modesto Junior College

Modesto Junior College

The Modesto Junior College is a community college located in Central Valley's Modesto, California.-Accreditation:Modesto Junior College is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. In January 2008, the Western Association Colleges and Schools notified the college that it had...

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
Sockbaby
Sockbaby is a four-part no-budget short film originally for Channel 101, directed by Douglas TenNapel, the man best known for works such as Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood; and John Soares, who is best known for co-founding the independent film group WestHavenBrook.The film lampoons kung-fu movies,...

, co-directed by Soares and Douglas TenNapel, which starred Soares and Cody Spurlock. Jon and Dan Heder

Jon Heder

Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder is an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His feature film debut came in 2004 as the title character of the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite...

and Doug Jones

Doug Jones (actor)

Doug Jones is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise...

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

Channel 101

Channel 101 is a non-profit short film festival in Los Angeles, which also has a sister festival in NYC, Channel 101: NY. Channel 101 is a creation of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab in which participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot under five minutes in length...

.

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

Current projects

Soares' current WestHavenBrook 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 an episodic spoof of Japanese Super Sentai

Super Sentai

The is the name given to the long-running Japanese superhero team genre of shows produced by Toei Co., Ltd., Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi...

-style shows called Go Sukashi!, in association with Watanabe Entertainment

Watanabe Entertainment

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and Dentsu

Dentsu

is one of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Its headquarters are located in the Dentsu Building in the Shiodome district of Minato, Tokyo....

, based on a character by Shoko Nakagawa

Shoko Nakagawa

is a Japanese idol, tarento, actress, voice actress, illustrator, and singer. She is best known as the presenter of Pokémon Sunday. She is the daughter of Katsuhiko Nakagawa, a celebrity in Japan in the 1980s....

(who introduces each segment), produced by Douglas TenNapel and co-starring Spurlock and Brooke Brodack

Brooke Brodack

Brooke Allison Brodack , aka Brookers, is an American viral video comedian mainly known for her short videos on YouTube, which have received 49 million views and led to a contract from the mainstream media. The New Yorker called her "the first real YouTube star."Brodack has been making videos since...

Viral videos

Soares also stars in a series of quirky webvideo shorts called The Vacuum Consortium, now in their third season, in which he plays Agamemnon Tiberius Vacuum, a would-be alien from "Planet 3" bent on world domination. (Other members of WestHavenBrook appear on these films as his various henchmen.) "Vacuum" has collaborated in the past with other popular internet personalities including Doctor Steel

Doctor Steel

Doctor Steel , is a self-published American musician located in Southern California, prominent in the Steampunk, Goth, and Rivethead scenes. He has performed on rare occasions with a "backup band", claiming that a fictitious robot band had malfunctioned...

(whom he claims he "met at an awkward super villain mixer party in Burbank, California hosted by Bill Gates

Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...

") and Brooke Brodack (whom he calls his nemesis, "The Brodack").

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Background

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