Who directed the 2006 Sundance award-winning film Quinceañera with Richard Glatzer?

Wash Westmoreland co-directed the 2006 film Quinceañera with Richard Glatzer.

The film centers on Magdalena, a teenager in Los Angeles whose planned quinceañera becomes entangled with family conflict and changing relationships. Its title refers directly to the cultural celebration that structures the story.

Westmoreland and Glatzer formed a long-running directing partnership. Their work on Quinceañera brought the film major recognition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award.

The pair later directed Still Alice, which earned Julianne Moore the Academy Award for Best Actress. That later success can make the directors’ earlier collaboration easy to overlook, but Quinceañera remains one of their notable early feature films.