Quinceañera is the 2006 independent film directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland about a Los Angeles quinceañera.
The film follows Magdalena, a pregnant teenager, and her cousin Carlos after family conflict changes their living situation. Set in Echo Park, Los Angeles, it explores family, sexuality, religion, community, and belonging through the preparations for Magdalena’s fifteenth-birthday celebration.
The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the Dramatic Competition. Those awards brought substantial attention to the production.
It is important to distinguish this film from the 1987 Mexican telenovela with the same title. The film’s directors are often listed together because they collaborated on the feature, while the answer asks for the single film title.