Name
Dean Alioto
Known For
Directing
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
Biography
Director and writer Dean Alioto is an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian with an impressive track record across film and television. He has produced acclaimed specials for A+E, Bravo, and Discovery, and served as a consultant on James Fox’s hit UFO documentary The Phenomenon. Dean’s groundbreaking work in the genre has earned him a place in the Paramount+ documentary Unknown Dimensions: The Story of Paranormal Activity, where he is celebrated as the creator of The McPherson Tape, the first-ever found footage film. He is also known for the enigmatic Paramount TV movie Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, which has become a cult classic in the UFO and paranormal storytelling space.
Known For
6.6
A deep dive into the making of the Paranormal Activity films with first time ever intervie...
7.5
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual ...
9.4
Two close sisters, Myah and Beth, struggle with their differences in life and in the older...
6.4
Concerned her widowed mother Tracy will be lonely when she leaves for college, kind-nature...
5.643
The documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed w...
5.3
On October 8th, 1983, the Van Heese family gathered together to celebrate the 5th birthday...
- 2021 Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity as Self
- 2007 L.A. Dicks as Harold
- 2016 Quarries as Cody
- 2012 MoniKa as Andy
- 2018 Beyond the Spectrum: Being Taken as Filmmaker
- 2009 Shadowheart as Spider
- 1989 UFO Abduction as Michael Van Heese
- 2021 The Found Footage Phenomenon as Self
- 2012 Complacent as Mr. Capilano
- 2025 Content as Stranger #1
- 2025 Man With a Movie Camera: The Found Footage Legacy of 'Man Bites Dog' as Self
- 2010 The Genesis Files ( 3 episodes ) as Taylor
