The 2006 film Quinceañera won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the independent drama follows Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose planned quinceañera becomes complicated by family and personal circumstances. The film uses the celebration as a setting for questions about identity, family expectations, and community.
Its Sundance recognition helped bring the film wider attention. The title is the same word used for the coming-of-age celebration, but the film is not a documentary or a guide to quinceañera customs. It is a fictional feature drama.