By Eric Blumer, CBS Colorado photographer - The 48th Denver Film Festival presented its Denver Film Festival's Rising Star award to Zoey Deutch for her performance in "Nouvelle Vague," directed by Richard Linklater.

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Deutch accepted the award Wednesday night at the Sie FilmCenter.

Nouvelle Vague is a 2025 film about the 1959 production of Breathless , one of the first feature films of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) era of French cinema. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival . Deutch also won an acting award for the film at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

In 2022, Deutch starred in and produced the films "Not Okay" for Searchlight/Hulu and "Something from Tiffany's" for Amazon/Hello Sunshine. She has been nominated at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards f

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