Hit The Mark Entertainment · Metro Atlanta, Georgia
Founder: DeShawn Marks
DeShawn Marks writes, directs and produces every Hit The Mark film. He also writes and produces the music.
He started Hit The Mark Entertainment in metro Atlanta to get the stories he has been writing for years in front of an audience, one world at a time.
Hit The Mark makes every world in three stages: an Animation, then a live-action short, then the feature.
Ellis Carter is the one everybody calls. Fix this, pay this, come get me. For one day, anybody who wants something from him can’t see him, and his daughter Maya is asking people one question: Do U love God?
At 11:11 p.m., a woman struggling to send a message that could alter someone’s life receives a call from a stranger who somehow knows what she has written—and what she will ultimately decide—forcing her to confront whether a choice can still belong to us if someone already knows we are going to make it.
The feature
You Never Know · Treatment
The Moment Before is the prequel to You Never Know: it is the Choice, one woman deciding a message at 11:11 p.m. while a stranger who already knows watches.
Six weeks after his daughter is born, a Georgia lineman pulls into his best friend’s carport at two in the morning with a packed bag in the truck, and his friend hands him a guitar.
The feature
My Darling Baby · Treatment
The short is the night the song was written, in 2007, and stands alone. A second short, My Darling Baby: Now, is nineteen years later, the night the song stopped belonging to the man who signed it. The feature, My Darling Baby, exists as a treatment.
During their biggest party yet, two lifelong friends become the only men able to move through a frozen crowd. One sees what people want. The other sees what they carry. When the party resumes, each must choose what to do with what he has seen.
Tyler Green, 21, invites five strangers to an Atlanta community center and asks each of them two questions: What color are you? And what color am I? Nobody answers the first one without a defense.
The feature
What Color Am I? · Concept
