Award-winning doc 'Selena y Los Dinos' has been acquired by Netflix

“Selena y Los Dinos,” the latest documentary movie astir the beingness of Tejano euphony icon Selena Quintanilla, has been acquired by Netflix. The movie is presently scheduled to statesman streaming successful wintertime 2025.

The movie, directed by Isabel Castro, features archetypal VHS footage taken by Selena’s older sister, Suzette, and is interspersed with present-day interviews with household and friends.

Netflix announced its acquisition successful a Tuesday property release.

“Through idiosyncratic archive and intimate interviews with her family, the movie reveals caller dimensions of her travel that person ne'er been seen before,” Castro shared successful the release. “I americium profoundly grateful to her household for their spot and enactment passim this journey, and I can’t hold for a planetary assemblage to acquisition the magic, bosom and assemblage that Selena gave to each of us.”

Suzette besides shared her enthusiasm astir the scope of the concern with Netflix successful the Tuesday announcement, stating, “Grateful to person a level that helps bring Selena’s communicative to fans astir the world.”

This is not the archetypal clip that the Quintanilla household has collaborated with the streaming giant. They worked with Netflix to assistance make “Selena: The Series” — a scripted retelling of Selena’s childhood, emergence to fame and decease starring Christian Serratos arsenic the Texas singer.

It was aft moving arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the Netflix bid that Suzette consulted her lawyer astir making her ain documentary.

“There’s immoderate things that you conscionable privation to clasp connected to and not stock with everyone,” Suzette said astatine the documentary’s 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere. “I was ever taking the pictures, ever with the camera. And look however brainsick it is, that I’m sharing it with each of you truthful galore years later.”

The documentary surfaces footage from performances successful which Selena subverts the thought of the well-manicured representation that the Quintanilla household has perpetually enactment retired of the vocalist successful the 30 years since her death. It besides captures, successful existent time, the improvement of a bold caller individuality increasing among Latino younker successful the 1980s, encapsulated successful Los Dinos’ taste hybridity.

The movie was awarded with a peculiar assemblage prize for archival storytelling astatine the renowned movie gathering astatine Sundance. The assemblage made enactment of however the diagnostic “transported america to a circumstantial clip and place, evoking themes of family, heritage, emotion and adolescence.”

So severely were radical clamoring to presumption the movie that the organizers of Sundance pulled it from its online platform. The movie had fallen unfortunate to a fig of copyright infringements arsenic anxious fans were uploading clips from it to societal media platforms. This was the archetypal clip that Sundance had removed a diagnostic during the festival.

De Los adjunct exertion Suzy Exposito and Times unit writer Mark Olsen contributed to this report.