Named after a Latino festivity celebrating the 15th birthday of a girl, the point at which she is said to become a woman, Quinceañera is a quietly observed story of life in a community of Mexican-Americans in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. The film opens with one such celebration for a girl whose parents can afford an above-average party, and we see it through the eyes of her cousin Magdalena (Emily Rios), who is dreaming of an even more ostentatious celebration of her own. Her dream says Hummer limo, but the family budget says hand-me-down-gown. The discussion seems to hit a brick wall when she is discovered to be pregnant and her god-fearing father refuses to believe her claim that she is still a virgin. (Which she technically is.) She runs away to the house where her great-uncle lives, a ramshackle but comfortable place that is also refuge to Magdalena’s cousin Carlos, who has created the even greater sin of being gay.

On June 16, 1959, actor George Reeves, star of the hit television show The Adventures of Superman, was found shot to death in his Los Angeles home. The coroner’s verdict was suicide, probably caused by depression due to career setbacks in an industry that saw him only as the comic book superhero. But did he really kill himself, or was he murdered?