Meiwes was sentenced in January to 8-1/2 years in jail for manslaughter after a trial publicizing gory details that riveted Germany. The film, whose working title is Your Heart in My Brain, has received nearly $25,000 in public funding from a regional film foundation in North Rhine-Westphalia, a western German state ruled by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats. Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who gained global notoriety for eating a willing victim, is being immortalized in a movie by a gay filmmaker, and hardly surprisingly, the project is already running into controversy.
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