I was skeptical going into the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Selena y Los Dinos, the new documentary about Selena Quintanilla directed by Isabel Castro (who also made Mija) in collaboration with the surviving Quintanilla family.

A new documentary film on the pop sensation Selena Quintanilla, titled ‘Selena y Los Dinos,’ made its premiere at Sundance Film Festival.

U.S. Documentary Competition Director: Isabel Castro Logline: Selena Quintanilla - the "Queen of Tejano Music" - and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadiums.

If a live performance can be deemed hallowed ground, then Selena Quintanilla at the Houston Astrodome in February 1995, a month before her untimely death, certainly qualifies. From that night, the heartfelt opening verse of her anthem "Como La Flor" sounds like a prayer,

The tale of her short life and horrible death has been retold over and over, most famously in the 1997 movie “Selena” starring Jennifer Lopez and most recently in the widely panned 2020 Netflix series “Selena: The Series.

Such winning archival footage is the heart and by far the best part of the puffy documentary Selena y Los Dinos, an easy-to-watch celebration of her legacy as a musician and a cultural figure. Her story is well-known,