What Sundance audience honor did the 2006 film Quinceañera also receive?

The 2006 film Quinceañera also received the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Audience Award is distinct from the Grand Jury Prize. A jury selects the latter, while festival audiences determine the former through viewer voting or ballots. Quinceañera’s success with both groups showed that it appealed to professional selectors and ordinary festivalgoers.

The film centers on Magdalena, a teenager preparing for her fifteenth-birthday celebration in a Mexican American community in Los Angeles. Its story includes family conflict, religion, pregnancy, and questions of belonging, giving the title tradition a serious dramatic context.

Winning both awards made Quinceañera one of the notable American dramatic films of the 2006 Sundance festival. The recognition also helped bring attention to the directors’ independent production and the film’s ensemble cast.