Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland later co-directed Still Alice after making Quinceañera.
Still Alice, released in 2014, stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Moore won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role.
The connection between the films is their directors, not their subjects. Quinceañera is an independent drama about a Mexican American family and a fifteenth-birthday celebration, while Still Alice is an adaptation of Lisa Genova’s 2007 novel about cognitive decline.
Glatzer was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis while Still Alice was being made. He and Westmoreland continued working together, and the film became their most widely recognized collaboration.