After working successfully in the independent film world, Canadian actor-turned-filmmaker and screenwriter Allan Moyle made his reputation in Hollywood with remarkably insightful teen films featuring well-sketched female characters. Most notable of the director's oeuvre was 1990's "Pump Up the Volume", a pirate radio-themed counterculture paean to John Hughes teen angst-fests.Born in Shawinigan, an English-speaking city in Quebec, Moyle started his film career after an apprenticeship at New Hampshire's New London Barn Theatre and a stint working in a psychiatric hospital in New York City. He
