RTF Presents: Selena y los Dinos: A Family's Legacy

RTF Presents a Latino Media Arts & Studies (L-MAS) Speaker Series screening of the Netflix documentary Selena y los Dinos: A Family's Legacy, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Isabel Castro and Assistant Professor Iliana Sosa.

Never-before-seen footage and intimate interviews celebrate the life and legacy of iconic Mexican American singer Selena Quintanilla and her family band, los Dinos. The Netflix documentary Selena y los Dinos: A Family's Legacy charts her journey from humble beginnings to global icon, showcasing the passion, sacrifice and deep family bond behind her legendary legacy.

Watch the trailer HERE. 

Isabel Castro is a five time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker and photographer. Her latest documentary, Selena y Los Dinos, had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2025 in the U.S. Documentary Competition where it won a Special Jury award for archival storytelling, audience awards at SXSW and Miami Film Festival and premiered on Netflix. Her first feature film, Mija (Sundance Film Festival 2022) was a New York Times critics pick, a DOC NYC shortlist, won a Cinema Eye Award and it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival. She directed, produced and filmed the Emmy-nominated, award-winning documentary short USA v Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker), Emmy-nominated Darlin (Tribeca 2019, NYT OpDocs), GLAAD award-winning Crossing Over (Univision/Participant Media) and on the Emmy-nominated Netflix docu-series Pandemic. She’s worked on dozens of stories as an opinion contributor, producer, cinematographer and multimedia journalist for The New York Times, as an Edward R. Murrow-award winning producer at The Marshall Project, and as a producer covering civil rights and policy at VICE on HBO. She has had fellowships with Concordia Studio, Firelight Media, NBC News Studios Original Voices, and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Castro was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film'' and DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40”, and she was nominated for an Independent Spirit award. She is in development on her first scripted feature with The Department of Motion Pictures.