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UFO ABDUCTION
Director: Dean Alioto
Screenwriter: Dean Alioto
Genre: Sci-Fi Found-Footage
Before THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, there was UFO ABDUCTION. This pioneering "found-footage" movie featured a family being abducted by aliens as told from the P.O.V. of a family members home video camera. The innovative video was so realistic that it caused an uproar at the International UFO Congress Convention. Shot in just one night, in one take, the film would go on to be remade for UPN Network, generating the network its highest primetime ratings for a TV movie.
CRASHING EDEN
Director: Dean Alioto
Screenwriter: Dean Alioto
Genre: Dark Comedic Thriller
Michael and Natalie had everything -- Adam and Ava fixed that. CRASHING EDEN is a suspenseful and humorous thriller about a politician and his wife who invite two strangers over for dinner for a night of stimulating conversation, blackmail, and murder. Winning top awards at RiverRun, WorldFest, and an audience award at the Santa Barbara Int. film festival, CRASHING EDEN was praised by Variety for it's "solid direction" and "humorous writing."
L.A. DICKS
Director: Dean Alioto
Screenwriter: Dean Alioto
Genre: Action-Comedy
What happens when two sketchy Los Angeles private detectives set out to force a big time film producer into buying the story of their real-life cases? -- a series of twisted, funny, and danerous situations. Winner of the Toronto RebelFest Spirit Award, L.A. DICKS puts a new spin on the private detective genre.
Director: Dean Alioto
Screenwriter: Dean Alioto
Genre: Western, Drama​
Proclaimed "The best western since Tombstone" by western historian, Peter Sherayko, SHADOWHEART tells the story of a bounty hunter who returns home after the civil war to find the local bully has taken over the town and is out to steal his girlfriend. A spralling epic, SHADOWHEART is about the journey from revenge to redemption.
SHADOWHEART
COMPLACENT
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Screenwriter: Steven R. Monroe
Genre: Drama
Everything is not as it seem in the picture-perfect lives of six friends. As life's daily mundane routine threatens their happiness, their fabricated facades begins to crumble. What they are left with will alter and shatter their world forever. Winner of the Indie Festival Award of Merit, COMPLACENT is an honest and realistic portrayal of the dangers of living a life of complancency.