In 2005, Diana Ossana was in the green room at the Venice Film Festival, elated. “Brokeback Mountain,” the film she’d shepherded into being after reading Annie Proulx’s short story in The New Yorker eight years earlier, had just won the Golden Lion, top prize at the festival.

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