John, a talented individual, achieved great success in the film industry, starting with his feature screenplay SHE CAME KNOCKING, which earned him a 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist title. Additionally, his screenplay TRESPASS made it to the 2nd round at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Contest the same year.
John's first feature film, JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER, was a horror-comedy that gained recognition, with his screenplay being nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award. The film premiered at Sitges International Film Festival, where it won the Best Midnight Film award, and later screened at Fantasia and was sold to Anchor Bay at Slamdance.
In 2012, John attended Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre Writer's Lab, where he wrote the short film COLD FEET, which screened at numerous festivals, including Fantasia, and was sold to AMC-IFC Networks.
John's directing career began with the award-winning feature film THE SUBLET in 2014. The film received praise, with horrorgeeklife.com describing it as "one of the most effective psychological horror films of the decade." It premiered at Whistler Film Festival and won the awards for Best Actress and Best Cinematography at Blood in the Snow Film Festival in Toronto.
Following THE SUBLET, John wrote and directed the intense thriller short SHE CAME KNOCKING, which earned several awards, including Best Short at the Canadian Film Festival in Toronto, Best Short and Best Actress at the NSI Online Film Festival, a Platinum Remi at WorldFest-Houston, and an Audience Choice Award at the FilmGate NOLA Film Festival in his hometown of Miami.
Before his writing career, John won the Borsos prize for Best Cinematographer at the Whistler Film Festival for his work on the feature SK8 LIFE, which also screened at Sundance.
