Alan Birkinshaw: Alan Birkinshaw. Director: Killer's Moon. Alan Birkinshaw started his working career as a Jackaroo in Australia. Soon afterwords he became a horse breaker and then a rodeo rider. He returned to the UK and on his 20th birthday joined Lew Grade's ATV as a television cameraman working on mainstream dramas and light entertainment shows. After 18 months he left ATV and became a freelance TV cameraman. At age 22 he...