Welcome!

Since launching their divergent professional careers in the 1970s, brothers Mike Marshall and Mark Marshall had discussed the idea of combining their film and video expertise in a company of their own.  The dream became a reality when River Rock Entertainment, LLC was created in November, 2001.

Currently, the brothers are in production on a project very dear to their hearts, a feature-length historical documentary, Soldiers of Misfortune: The Sultana Disaster. Additionally, River Rock has optioned the rights to two screenplays by Brian Young, an exceptionally talented local writer, and has signed a deal with Los Angeles-based Purple Ace Productions to develop motion picture and television projects.

Feel free to look around at information on past, current, and future projects!

Quote taken from the book, Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences
of Survivors by Rev. Chester D. Berry, 1892.

“I have seen death’s carnival in the yellow-fever and the cholera-stricken city, on the ensanguined field, in hospital and prison, and on the rail; I have, with wife and children clinging in terror to my knees, wrestled with the midnight cyclone; but the most horrible of all were the sights and sounds of that hour. The prayers, shrieks and groans of strong men and helpless women and children are still ringing in my ears, and the remembrance makes me shudder. The sight of 2,000 ghostly, pallid faces upturned in the chilling waters of the Mississippi, as I looked down on them from the boat, is a picture that haunts me in my dreams. But to the narrative. Where shall I begin?”

J. Walter Elliott, Company F, 44th U. S. Colored Troop