The 2006 Sundance-winning film directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer is Quinceañera.
Quinceañera is a feature drama centered on a Mexican American family in Los Angeles. Its plot follows Magdalena and her cousin Carlos as family expectations and personal crises complicate preparations for a fifteenth-birthday celebration.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, where it won both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Those awards established it as a notable independent film rather than merely a film with a culturally specific title.
The title can be confused with the 1987 Mexican telenovela Quinceañera, which is a separate television production. The film and the telenovela share the same title but have different casts, creators, formats, and stories.