Heavens Fall

How often do you get to screen a film before it is even edited with sound and music? Well, if you live in LA probably more than you would think. We absorbed the pre-edit film and put together a simple solution that matched the tone of the film. The music is a great match to Terry Green’s vision.

Official Film Site designed and developed for Strata Productions and Director Terry Green. We supplied Creative Direction, Flash Build+Development, Design, DVD, and Print. Thanks to Kevin Sharon for lending a hand as lead designer for the web portion.

About the film:
In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys became a ’cause celebre’ that fueled the fire of socialism worldwide, forcing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and resulting in new trials for all nine defendants. New Yorker Samuel Leibowitz, a savvy and self-assured defense lawyer with an impressive string of courtroom victories, agreed to represent the accused at their retrials in Decatur, Alabama. His journey into the Deep South symbolized the polarity of the times and set in motion a legal battle that ultimately changed the course of American jurisprudence.