Past Featured Films

"What It Was Was Football"

(Docu-Narrative – 7 minutes)

Before he became America’s favorite sheriff, a 24-year-old Andy Griffith earned extra cash doing stand-up comedy. Recording "What It Was Was Football" in 1953 led directly to Griffith’s Hollywood discovery. In an update of this comedy classic about a country bumpkin who inadvertently stumbles into a college football game, director Duncan Brantley married Griffith’s comedy recording with 1950s era film footage to create a seven-minute short.

Filmmaker

Duncan Brantley, calling on 15 years as a print journalist and screenwriter, recently founded Eat A Peach Pictures, a diversified motion picture production company. A Journalism major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brantley headed for New York after graduation. He worked for five years as a reporter at Sports Illustrated, concentrating on sailing and college football. In 1991, Duncan and Sports Illustrated senior writer Rick Reilly wrote "Leatherheads," an old-fashioned romantic comedy set around the early days of the NFL, and sold the screenplay to Universal Studios. Brantley is currently involved in writing and producing a number of Eat A Peach projects including "Leatherheads" and another script presently in negotiations for production at Warner Brothers. Brantley lives in Wilmington.