Quinceañera is the 2006 Mexican-American film centered on a quinceañera.
Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the film follows Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose family plans her quinceañera. The story uses the celebration as a setting for examining family relationships, identity, religion, sexuality, and changing expectations.
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. It was later released theatrically under the title Quinceañera.
The movie is sometimes confused with Selena, another film strongly associated with Mexican-American culture, but Selena is a biographical drama about singer Selena Quintanilla. Quinceañera is a fictional independent film specifically built around the coming-of-age celebration.