Quinceanera, an independent film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and GAYVN-award winner Wash West, has been selected to compete in the Dramatic Competition category at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, according to a November 29 report in Daily Variety.
The movie is described by Variety as "concerning two disaffected Latinos coming of age in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles that's becoming gentrified, largely by gays."
Sixteen films are entered in the Dramatic Competition category. The festival takes place January 19-29 in Park City, Utah.
West's first gay XXX feature was 1996's much admired Dr. Jerkoff and Mr. Hard, but it was his second movie, Naked Highway, that cemented his reputation as one of gay adult entertainment's most imaginative and talented filmmakers. Naked Highway won GAYVN awards for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Videography, and Actor. (The middle three awards went to West directly.)
Two other West features that have won Best Picture and Director GAYVNs are The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony (All Worlds Video), a riff on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Hole (Jet Set Productions), a gay spoof of mainstream Hollywood's The Ring.
A softcore version of The Hole has just been released by TLA Video.
West and Glatzer also collaborated on 2001's acclaimed The Fluffer (TLA Video), an R-rated film about the gay adult industry that was an official selection of the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals.
