Overview
- Director Isabel Castro built the documentary from hundreds of hours of previously unseen home videos, studio sessions, letters, and performance footage preserved by the Quintanilla family.
- Selena’s siblings Suzette Quintanilla and A.B. Quintanilla served as executive producers, with rare on-camera participation from their mother, Marcella.
- The film prioritizes an intimate portrait over true-crime retelling, with the killer absent from the narrative while select archival audio marks the day of the tragedy.
- After premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the project won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling and was later acquired by Netflix.
- Festival organizers briefly pulled the online screening earlier this year over unauthorized clip sharing, underscoring intense fan interest in the newly surfaced archive.