Together, they wrote and directed the 2014 film Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling book and starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, and Alec Baldwin.

After working as a camera assistant on Bruce LaBruce's movie Hustler White, Westmoreland entered the adult entertainment world to try to research a feature film project, The Fluffer.

He got a job directing for BIG Video, a minor label, and under the name Wash West he started making movies that challenged the conventional norms of the industry.

It received mixed positive reviews and gained almost instant cult status, John Waters including it in his famous series Ten Movies That Will Corrupt You.

[citation needed] Around this time, he gave a candid interview about his experiences in the industry to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.

[1] Working alone, Westmoreland made a documentary during the 2004 election season, following four Log Cabin Republicans as they responded to President George W. Bush's initiative to alter the US Constitution to ensure that marriage was only legal between a man and a woman.

Made for a budget of under $500,000, and featuring many first-time actors, Quinceañera ended up winning both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

[9] The lead actress, Emily Rios, went on to have a successful career starring in Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, and The Bridge.

After releasing their film Quinceañera in 2006 to critical success at Sundance, Glatzer and Westmoreland found it difficult to secure funding for further projects during the Great Recession.

Glatzer and Westmoreland started researching the screenplay in 2003, earning the trust of Florence's[clarification needed] daughter, Beverly, and the friendship of author Tedd Thomey and Flynn's chauffeur in his final years, Ronnie Shedlo.

[17] In December 2011, Glatzer and Westmoreland were hired by UK-based producing duo, Lex Lutzus and James Brown, to adapt Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice, about a fifty-year-old linguistics professor who develops early onset Alzheimer's disease.

[17][18] Glatzer had been diagnosed with ALS a few months prior to accepting the job;[17] he and Westmoreland communicated through an iPad when his physical state had deteriorated.

[20] Killer Films from The Last of Robin Hood came back on as producers and the movie was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics and released in December 2014.

[28][29] Earthquake Bird is a noir thriller about a female expat (Alicia Vikander) in Tokyo, Japan who is suspected of murder when her friend (Riley Keough) goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle with a local photographer (Naoki Kobayashi).