25/01/2006

London-based sales company Hanway Films headed by Tim Haslam, is preparing for a busy Berlinale with no less than 19 titles on its line-up including the Panorama participant Brothers Of The Head, the first feature film by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the duo behind the acclaimed documentary Lost In La Mancha.

Produced by Simon Channing Williams (The Constant Gardener [+see also:
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Hanway will also present four titles in post-production: the German animated film Impy’s Island by Holger Tappe, Woody Allen’s new Scoop in which Scarlett Johansson plays a US journalist investigating a series of murders in London, Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater (Before Sunset), and Milos Forman’s Spanish/US film Goya’s Ghosts scripted by Jean-Claude Carriere and Bo Goldman, with Javier Bardem and Natalie Portman in the lead. Two titles in production will also be offered for pre-sales: the Canadian film Away From Her by actress turned director Sarah Polley which will start shooting in late February with Julie Christie in the lead, and Becoming Jane an Irish/UK co-production by the director of Kinky Boots Julian Jarrold. Anne Hathaway (Brokeback Mountain) will play a young Jane Austen who falls in love with an Irishman.