Who directed the 2006 film Quinceañera, which won major awards at Sundance?

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland directed the 2006 film Quinceañera.

The film follows Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose planned quinceañera becomes complicated by family and personal conflicts. Its story uses the celebration as a setting for questions about family, identity, religion, and belonging rather than treating the event as only a party.

Glatzer and Westmoreland wrote and directed the film together. At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Quinceañera received both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the Dramatic Competition, bringing it substantial attention in independent cinema.

The film’s title uses the Spanish term for the celebrant and the celebration. It should not be confused with documentary coverage of real quinceañeras or with unrelated films that happen to use Spanish birthday terminology.