The 2006 film Quinceañera won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the film follows Magdalena, a pregnant teenager in Los Angeles whose family’s religious and cultural expectations shape the story around her planned quinceañera. Emily Rios plays Magdalena.
The film premiered at Sundance in 2006 and received recognition for its portrayal of Latino family life, sexuality, religion, and community. Its title refers to the fifteenth-birthday celebration that forms an important social and emotional setting in the plot.
Quinceañera is sometimes confused with unrelated films about adolescence or Latino identity. The specific Sundance double win belongs to this 2006 film, not to Real Women Have Curves or Bend It Like Beckham. The film was also released under the title Echo Park, L.A., in some contexts.