Overview
- The feature is streaming on Netflix after winning a Sundance Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling.
- Director Isabel Castro draws on never-before-seen home videos and extensive interviews with the Quintanilla family.
- The film foregrounds the family band’s collective rise, restoring everyday humanity and highlighting Selena’s cultural reach.
- Selena’s killing is handled with restraint yet includes wrenching hospital recollections, with doctors pronouncing her dead at 23 of hypovolemic shock.
- Related reporting revisits Yolanda Saldívar’s 1995 conviction and her past denials in a 2024 prison interview, with parole rejected earlier in 2025.