The film Quinceañera was released in 2006 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival that year.
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the film focuses on a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles. Its story connects a family’s quinceañera preparations with conflicts involving pregnancy, religion, sexuality, and expectations about respectability.
The film received the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Dramatic Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Its festival success helped it gain a theatrical release and made it one of the better-known independent films associated with Latino American representation in the period.
The title can cause confusion because quinceañera is also the name of a cultural celebration. Here, Quinceañera with a capital Q refers specifically to the feature film.