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Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee believes discrimination played a role in the film losing the Best Picture Oscar to Crash. Despite the loss, the film won accolades for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Director for Lee. Lee recalls the uncertainty at the Oscar ceremony, where even after winning Best Director, the Best Picture was unexpectedly awarded to Crash.

Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee believes his movie lost out on a Best Picture Oscar due to discrimination against the central gay love story of the movie. The film was nominated for several awards back in 2006, and although it won three, it was beaten to the Best Picture award by crime drama Crash.

Brokeback Mountain RDramaDocumentaryRomance Release DateSeptember 10, 2005DirectorAng LeeCastHeath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Valerie Planche, Michelle Williams, Anne HathawayRuntime134Main GenreDramaWritersAnnie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana OssanaStudioFocus FeaturesTaglineLove is a force of natureWebsitehttp://www.brokebackmountain.com

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Stars: Brittany Allen, Levi Meaden, Rory J. Saper, Ajna Savcic, Sarah Troyer, Christopher Rosamond, Valerie Planche, David LeReaney, Maddie Dixon-Poirier, Griffin Cork | Written and Directed by Kurtis David Harder

Samantha (Anja Savcic) is a young girl who juggles her life around looking after her mother, her job at a cafe and her Sociology studies at university. It’s a pretty simple existence until her friend Mark (Levi Meaden) introduces her to his friend Marissa (Sarah Troyer) and a smooth talking British chap by the name of Victor (Rory J. Saper), who recently quit university and just like when you stay in a hotel – decided to take home a small memento.

When I say a small memento, I mean a device that allows the users to infiltrate and take control of somebody else’s mind and body. Of course, given this opportunity to see the world through someone else’s eyes...

Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain — it changing them into different people. Some distinctly show them living despite it instead. Rather than depict Connor (Marton Csokas) and Alise (Vera Farmiga) as the death of their baby girl just ten months prior consumes them, Jordan Roberts’ Burn Your Maps portrays their desire to move on after their transformations are complete. They’re searching for a future they hope exists but cannot yet see. They’ve dealt with grief already (at least they’re frustrated enough to believe they have), so now it’s time to embrace the life that remains. While their son Wes (Jacob Tremblay) readies for what this entails, we’re still uncertain if they are too.

But don’t think this story is one steeped in heavy drama from start to finish without room to breathe.