According to Reuters, Ang Lee, the award-winning director of the critically acclaimed film “Brokeback Mountain,” is set to direct a movie revolving around the Woodstock music festival. ”Taking Woodstock” centers on the amazing life of Elliot Tiber, a Greenwich Village-based interior designer and part-time Catskills hotel manager who headed the Bethel, N.Y., Chamber of Commerce. He issued the permit for the legendary 1969 concert on his neighbor Max Yasgur’s farm. The movie is based on Tiber’s memoir, titled, ”Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life,” which he wrote with Tom Monte.

Focus Features is producing the film. Focus was also behind Brokeback, and the upcoming Gus Van Sant film, ‘Milk’, based on Harvey Milk’s stranger-than-fiction life.