Sundance at Karlovy Vary 2006 / Quinceañera / USA 2006
The plot of the winning film at this year’s festival at Sundance unfolds in a Mexican community in modern Los Angeles. Adolescent Magdalena unexpectedly gets pregnant and leaves home. Living together with another teenage family outsider, Carlos, she faces the first existential problems of her life.
The plot of the winning film at this year’s festival at Sundance takes place in a Mexican community in modern Los Angeles. Magdalena lives only for the preparations for her 15th birthday celebration, an event that Mexicans attach great importance to. One day however, she finds out that a lack of caution in her first romantic encounter has left her pregnant, and the rage of her deeply religious father forces her from her home. Magdalena goes to her great-uncle Tomas, where she faces the first existential problems of her life sharing the household with another adolescent family outsider, Carlos. Confronting racial, class, and sexual prejudices, the directors pay homage to the so-called “kitchen sink” drama genre, which was predominant in British theatre and film on the cusp of the 1950s and 60s. The impressiveness of this decorously poignant film originates in the filmmakers’ steadfast belief in the poetry of everyday moments.
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
/ Screenplay Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
/ Dir. of Photography Eric Steelberg
/ Music Victor Bock, Micko Westmoreland, J. Peter Robinson
/ Editor Robin Katz, Clay Zimmerman
/ Producer Anne Clements
/ Production Kitchen Sink Entertainment
/ Cast Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González
/ Contact Celluloid Dreams
www: www.quinceanerathemovie.com
Wash Westmoreland, originally from Leeds in England, studied political science at the University of Newcastle. He has directed TV shows, documentaries, and fiction films. In 2003, he and Richard Glatzer filmed their feature debut The Fluffer. His movie Gay Republicans (2004) won the Audience Prize for best documentary film at AFI Fest.
Richard Glatzer studied American literature at the University of Virginia. His feature film debut Grief (1994) competed at the Sundance festival and won awards at gay and lesbian film festivals in San Francisco and Turin. He is currently preparing the film Lot’s Wife in collaboration with W. Westmoreland.
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