Dean Alioto

Dean Alioto is a filmmaker who studied film at the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University and has written and directed movies in several genres. His found footage movie Alien Abduction: Incident In Lake County (1998) shows a family abducted by aliens through a home video camera, with the tape supposedly discovered by a sheriff, and it appeared before The Last Broadcast and The Blair Witch project. Alioto's theatrical film debut, the dark satire Crashing Eden, earned several national and international awards, and Variety commended his writing and his skill with actors. He followed with L.A. Dicks, about two Los Angeles detectives pitching their real-life cases to Hollywood, which won the Spirit Award at the Toronto International RebelFest Film Festival. He later directed the western Shadowheart and plays drums with Uncle Bob and The Wonderland Express.