Which 2006 film about a Los Angeles Latina teenager is titled Quinceañera?

The 2006 film about a Los Angeles Latina teenager is titled Quinceañera.

Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Quinceañera follows Magdalena, a teenager whose planned birthday celebration is disrupted when she becomes pregnant. The story places family expectations, faith, sexuality, class, and neighborhood change alongside the celebration itself.

The film is set in Echo Park, a Los Angeles neighborhood undergoing rapid social and economic change. Rather than presenting the party as a purely decorative event, the movie uses the quinceañera as a framework for examining belonging and family relationships. Emily Rios plays Magdalena, while Jesse Garcia and Chalo González also appear in prominent roles.

Quinceañera premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it received both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the Dramatic category. It was released theatrically later in 2006. The film is sometimes confused with other coming-of-age movies about Latina teenagers, but its title directly names the celebration at the center of the story.