Who wrote and directed the 2006 film Quinceañera together?

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland wrote and directed the 2006 film Quinceañera together.

Their collaboration produced an independent drama centered on Magdalena’s quinceañera, her pregnancy, and the related family crisis involving her cousin Carlos. The filmmakers combine a personal coming-of-age story with broader subjects such as cultural tradition, sexuality, and gentrification in Echo Park.

The pair continued collaborating on films after Quinceañera. Their later work included The Last of Robin Hood and Still Alice, which Westmoreland directed and Glatzer co-wrote before Glatzer’s death in 2015.

They are sometimes confused with the film’s performers, particularly Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia. Rios plays Magdalena and Garcia plays Carlos; Glatzer and Westmoreland are the writer-directors.