Who directed the 2006 American film Quinceañera, which won awards at the Sundance Film Festival?

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland directed the 2006 American film Quinceañera.

The film follows a pregnant teenager and her cousin in Los Angeles as family tensions and housing problems disrupt preparations for a quinceañera. Its story uses the celebration as a setting for questions about family, identity, sexuality, religion, and belonging.

Quinceañera premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the Dramatic Competition. Those honors brought the independent film wider attention.

Glatzer and Westmoreland later collaborated on other films, including Still Alice, which Westmoreland directed and which was based on Lisa Genova’s novel. The film title uses the familiar name of the celebration, but the movie is a fictional drama rather than a documentary account of one universal ritual.