Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Quinceañera

Q: What porn producer and the brains behind America's Next Top Model made a Sundance hit?



A: Wash Westmoreland, an Englishman who's helmed hard-core gay sex videos, and Richard Glatzer, a supervising producer on Tyra Banks' hit reality series, are the real thing: a gay couple who wrote and directed Quinceañera, the big winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Quinceañera refers to a Latino girl's 15th birthday celebration and for the writing-directing team this teen marker is a springboard to examine colliding cultures in contemporary L.A. Inspired in part by their own move to the Silver Lake district which rapidly transformed from working to yuppie class, Glatzer and Westmoreland will next set their sights on early 20th-century Paris to tell a story about Collette.

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