The central film released by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer in 2006 is titled Quinceañera.
The film follows Magdalena, a teenager whose planned celebration becomes entangled with pregnancy, family conflict, and questions about respectability. It also follows her cousin Carlos, making the story a wider family drama rather than a simple account of party preparations.
Quinceañera premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Dramatic Audience Award. Those honors helped establish it as a notable independent film of 2006.
The title refers to the cultural celebration associated with a girl’s 15th birthday. It is not the same title as Quinceañero, the masculine Spanish term, and it should not be confused with the unrelated 1984 film Sixteen Candles.