Which two directors made the 2006 film Quinceañera?

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland directed the 2006 film Quinceañera.

The film was a collaboration between the American filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, who also co-wrote it. Their screenplay focuses on Magdalena, a teenager in Echo Park whose quinceañera plans collide with an unexpected pregnancy and tensions within her extended family.

Glatzer and Westmoreland were partners in both filmmaking and life. Their work often explored people negotiating social expectations and personal identity. Quinceañera brought those concerns into a bilingual, working-class Los Angeles setting while making the birthday tradition central to the plot rather than treating it as background decoration.

The film gained major attention at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Dramatic Audience Award, giving the directors an unusually strong festival reception. It later became one of the better-known American independent films built around a Mexican American family and community.