Who directed the 2006 film Quinceañera alongside Wash Westmoreland?

Richard Glatzer directed the 2006 film Quinceañera alongside Wash Westmoreland.

The film was written and directed by Glatzer and Westmoreland and follows Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose family and community respond to her unexpected pregnancy. The story also explores the lives of her cousin Carlos and her older cousin Auntie Tomás.

Glatzer and Westmoreland were life and creative partners who collaborated on several films. Their later work included Still Alice, which Westmoreland directed and which earned Julianne Moore the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The film’s title refers to the central fifteenth-birthday celebration, but its plot is not a general guide to quinceañera customs. It is an independent drama about family, sexuality, religion, gentrification, and belonging in Echo Park.