The success of Hollywood’s award-winning and critically-acclaimed Brokeback Mountain has spurred unprecedented efforts to woo tourists and moviemakers to the foothills of Canada’s conservative Alberta province where the film was shot.

The movie was shot along the Canadian Rockies, primarily in the Kananaskis Country region near Banff National Park, a rugged landscape often described by director Ang Lee as “mythical.”

There have been many movies filmed here – watch out for the “Assassination of Jesse James” starring Brad Pitt, due to be released later this year. This movie was filmed mostly at Spray Lakes, just outside of Canmore.