John Soares


John Soares is an American film director, actor, editor, and fight choreographer. He is best known for his martial arts fight choreography in Sockbaby, Go Sukashi!, and The Danger Element.

Early life

Soares was born in Turlock, California and grew up in the Central Valley working on his family's almond farm in the agricultural community of Hughson, California.
In 1999, Soares enrolled in film classes at Modesto Junior College where he met his future filmmaking partners Ben Beames and Justin Spurlock.

Career

In 2001, Soares founded Westhavenbrook Productions with partners Ben Beames and Justin Spurlock.
Soares co-directed Sockbaby with Doug TenNapel starring Soares, Cody Spurlock, Uriel Padilla, Justin Spurlock, Jon Heder, Doug Jones, Rob Schrab, Kate Freund, and Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
Soares also produced a series of humorous shorts called "The Vacuum Consortium", where he plays a mad scientist from another planet bent on world domination. One episode, "Reunion", featured a video call with musician and internet personality Doctor Steel.
Soares was featured in the Movie Kung Fu episode of Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX hosted by Erik Beck.
Soares and TenNapel, in association with Watanabe Entertainment and Dentsu Inc., started production on Go Sukashi! a digital series that parodies the 1970’s Super Sentai Japanese television series based on a character created by Shoko Nakagawa starring Soares, Justin Spurlock, and Brooke Brodack.
Soares worked as a motion picture editor for Dreamworks Animation from 2014 to 2017, on the animated series Little Big Awesome and the second season of Niko and the Sword of Light at Titmouse, Inc. Shortly after entering the Motion Picture Editors Guild, he was hired by Warner Brothers Animation to edit another Animated series, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. The show was canceled a couple of months later and John began editing Looney Tunes Cartoons.
Soares directed The Danger Element starring Soares, Doug Jones, Cassie Meder, Kevan Hewett, Joshua Krebs, Justin Spurlock, and Ben Page. He is now working on a sequel to The Danger Element entitled Jitni: Book of Lies.

Personal life

Soares is Roman Catholic. Soares is of Portuguese descent.

Filmography

Awards and nominations