You never know who might be swimming next to you in a treacherous river basin, and film star Julia Stiles is here to tell you: Take note. It might just be Nathaniel Rateliff (... and the Night Sweats, too).

Stiles met Colorado’s biggest songwriting superstar back in August 2017 while she was swimming in the Columbia River near George, Washington (that’s an important comma). It was a chance encounter that years later would profoundly inform her debut effort as a film director.

“I was a fan, and had been for a long time,” said Stiles, who was in Denver on May 30 to accept Denver Film’s 2025 Women+Film Barbara Bridges Inspiration Award at a gala luncheon under a tented canopy at the Denver Botanic Gardens . Among those watching Stiles give her remarks were Rateliff and his partne

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