Thalia makes directorial debut

Thirty years after she starred in the telenovela “Quinceanera,’’ Thalia makes her directorial debut with an HBO documentary about the importance in Latin culture of celebrating a girl’s 15th birthday.

“15: A Quinceanera Story,’’ which premiered Tuesday, includes four episodes to be aired during consecutive nights.

They go from a transgender teen who shares her celebration with her trans godmothers who didn’t have a chance to have their own quinceanera to an amateur female boxer whose father was deported and whose devoted coach faces the same fate.

“This documentary comes from my need to tell the story of the Hispanic community, of the families that regardless of their social class, regardless of borders, make anything needed to celebrate a party where a girl will stop being a girl and will become the woman that’s going to face her life from then on,’’ Thalia said in a recent interview.

“It’s such a beautiful story to see how families make every possible effort to give her a party ... to dress her with those dreamy dresses. And the union and the love, that to me was the important thing to share in these moments where everything around us, what we read in the newspaper, what we hear in the news, is negative, is upsetting, is about death, is about pain,’’ the Mexican singer and actress said.

“I want to bring some love, some light, some hope, some family, some romanticism, some dreams with this documentary.’’