Allumination FilmWorks is proud to debut Terry Green's powerful drama, Heavens Fall on DVD on November 6, 2007 for a suggested price of $29.98 (prebook October 2, 2007). Based on the infamous case of "The Scottsboro Boys" in 1931 Alabama, Heavens Fall is a blistering indictment of racial intolerance and an impassioned plea for justice. The film stars Academy Award® winner Timothy Hutton (Best Supporting Actor, Ordinary People), Academy Award® nominee David Strathairn (Best Actor, Good Night, and Good Luck) and Golden Globe® and Emmy® Award nominee Leelee Sobieski (The Glass House).

Heavens Fall premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and was also screened to great acclaim at the Florida Film Festival, the Sarasota Film Festival and the Hollywood Film Festival, where it won the Hollywood Discovery Award as Best Feature Film.

In the spring of 1931, nine black men were arrested for allegedly raping two white women aboard an Alabama freight train. With alarming immediacy, all nine men were tried and sentenced to die in the electric chair. What followed was a firestorm of conjecture and controversy that reached far beyond the Alabama state lines, as the entire nation began to examine the facts of the case--and its own collective conscience.

Noted New York defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz (Hutton) agreed to represent the defendants at their retrials in Decatur, AL. As a lawyer, as a Northerner and as a Jew, Leibowitz experienced first-hand the racial divide that threatened to send nine innocent men to their deaths for a crime they did not commit. The Scottsboro case would have a major impact on the course of American jurisprudence and its legacy continues to reverberate to this day, more than 75 years later.