Dean Alioto — filmography (TMDb)
Source: The Movie Database (TMDb), person 85813 — https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85813-dean-alioto. Captured: 2026-06-07 (parsed from the TMDb credits page). Reference list of Dean Alioto’s directing/writing/producing/other credits. Analysis: alioto-experiencers-documentary.
Film-school: USC and San Francisco State (per IMDb/press). Career spans 1989–present across found-footage horror, scripted TV-movies, true-crime/history documentary, and the recent UFO/experiencer documentaries. (Note: a narrative feature Crashing Eden, praised by Variety, is cited in press but does not appear in the TMDb credits below — flagged as unverified here.)
Directing
- 2026 — The Experiencers: Full Disclosure (also writer)
- 2025 — The Alien Perspective Part II (also writer); The Alien Perspective (producer)
- 2024 — The Last Podcast (also writer, producer)
- 2023 — The Haunting of Dalva House
- 2019 — Portal (also writer)
- 2016 — Quarries (second-unit director; also producer, actor)
- 2010 — The Genesis Files (creator; also actor)
- 2009 — Shadowheart (also writer/screenplay, editor, actor)
- 2007 — L.A. Dicks (also writer, producer, editor, actor)
- 2005 — Jesse James: Legend, Outlaw, Terrorist
- 2004 — Lizzie Borden Had an Axe
- 1998 — Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (also writer) — the UPN remake of UFO Abduction
- 1989 — UFO Abduction (The McPherson Tape) (also writer, producer, cinematographer, actor) — his debut; see wiki-mcpherson-tape
Other credits (selected)
- Editing / Camera: A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025, editor + director of photography); Shadowheart (2009, editor); L.A. Dicks (2007, editor)
- Acting appearances: Content (2025); Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity (2021, credited as the first filmmaker to use the found-footage format); Beyond the Spectrum: Being Taken (2018); MoniKa (2012); The Genesis Files (2010)
- Crew: Man With a Movie Camera: The Found Footage Legacy of ‘Man Bites Dog’ (2025, “Thanks”)
The throughline relevant to this base: a found-footage pioneer (1989 debut, predating Blair Witch) who returned to the UFO/abduction subject as a documentarian in the 2020s (The Experiencers series, The Alien Perspective I & II, The Experiencers: Full Disclosure).