Past scripted projects attempting to tell Selena Quintanilla's story − a 1997 feature starring Jennifer Lopez and a two-season Netflix series − were sprinkled with what the late singer's sister Suzette calls "Hollywood glitter."
This time, it's different, she says.
A new Netflix documentary, "Selena y Los Dinos" (streaming Nov. 17), provides an intimate look at the "Queen of Tejano Music" through interviews with those closest to her and never-before-seen footage from home videos.
"This documentary is just so different because it's raw footage, and it's us talking about how life was back then and what's going on now, how life is, and it's real," says Suzette, who, along with her brother Abraham "A.B." Quintanilla III, serves as a producer of the film.
"I mean, you can't get any more real than having my mother and my father, my brother, her husband (guitarist Chris Pérez), my bandmates, and myself be a part of telling our story," she adds.
