ABU DHABI: When Netflix announced it would release the award-winning documentary “Selena y Los Dinos,” about the late La Reina, or Queen of Tejano Music, Selena Quintanilla Perez — known only as Selena — I knew I would be among the first to watch it.
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Although Selena was tragically gunned down 30 years ago at the age of 23, her music has remained very much alive.
Directed by Mexican-born and US-raised filmmaker Isabel Castro — who was 5 at the time of Selena’s untimely death — the project felt intimate.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling.
