As much a filmed account of the "shot heard 'round the world" as it is a "making-of" for infamous Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca's biography "A Moment in Time" as told by prolific ghost writer David Ritz, BRANCA'S PITCH attempts to convey the way in which the distinctive voices of these two storytellers (or mythmakers) mesh into one (and to what extend one may have overtaken the other). Of course, there's another voice here: that of director Andrew J. Muscato - whose BALLPLAYER: PELOTERO is also due out from Strand Releasing - who unsubtle, surreal cutaways during the depiction of the titular event may be less symbolic of the mindset of the protagonist than that of the national psyche during this event (particularly of those total strangers who were abusive to Branca and his family in the aftermath). It is appropriate that this major even is covered only forty-odd minutes into the film, because Branca's life went on after it (colored as it was by the event in many ways). The revelations that the Giants may have cheated by stealing signs - dropped by Branca himself but not investigated until years later by sports writer Josh Prager (also interviewed here) and advanced in his book "The Echoing Green" reveals Branca's own anger and sense of injustice as he tried to play the good sport after his initial post-game meltdown (photographs of Branca and Thompson being friendly as well as a humorous Ed Sullivan show appearance from which the documentary derives is original title BECAUSE OF YOU). Prager himself - also interviewed here - does dispel some other aspects of the myth of Branca being brought down by the single event (his stats were not particularly stellar at the time), and his own book may be more balanced in telling the story of Branca and Thompson; but Ritz believes that everyone is entitled to their own myth, and "A Moment in Time" is Branca's story while BRANCA'S PITCH offers up some interesting context (if not balance).