About Me

Brandon Benefield was born in Decatur, GA, in 1982, however, he did most of his growing up in Tucker, GA, where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. During high school and while attending college at Georgia State University, he worked at the First Baptist Church of Decatur, GA. While at the church, he had various jobs, such as working with the Activities Building Janitorial Crew, the After-School and Summer Camp Programs, the Basketball and Softball Leagues, the Youth and College Ministries, and the church website. Over the years, Brandon discovered his passion for video production, working on numerous video projects for the youth group and the college group at FBC Decatur. During this time, Brandon created his production company, Big Benny Productions, through which he continued to shoot and edit videos for the church as well as weddings and other various events for friends and family.

Eventually, Brandon heard about a great film school in Orlando, FL, called Full Sail, and that's where he headed in the summer of 2004. After completing the film program at Full 12k

Sail, he graduated in August 2005 with an Associate of Science Degree in Film & Video Production. He has since moved back home and currently resides just outside of Atlanta in Decatur, GA.

Brandon and Brett Opstad focus most of their time and energy into their internet show called BRTV. The show was created back in 1998 as a public access tv show and has since evolved into an online show. You can find out all about BRTV by visiting www.BRtelevision.net!

In addition, Brandon also stays busy working on other various video projects as well as maintaining several websites, incuding the FBC Youth homepage and the FBC Alert Class homepage. To view those sites, check out the links to the right. To contact Brandon, visit the Contact page.