Who directed the 2006 film Quinceañera about a teenager named Magdalena?

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland directed the 2006 film Quinceañera.

The film follows Magdalena, a teenager whose quinceañera preparations are affected by an unexpected pregnancy and conflict with relatives. Its directors use the planned celebration as the framework for a larger story about family loyalty, social expectations, and acceptance.

Glatzer and Westmoreland were a creative and life partnership as well as filmmaking collaborators. Their work on Quinceañera helped bring an independent, English-language portrayal of a Mexican American quinceañera to festival and theatrical audiences.

The film premiered at Sundance in 2006 and received an Audience Award there. The two-director credit is important: naming only one of them gives an incomplete answer. They are also sometimes confused with other prominent Mexican or Latino filmmakers, but Quinceañera’s directing credit belongs to Glatzer and Westmoreland.