Isabel Castros “Selena Y Los Dinos”, which won Sundance Film Festival Documentary Special Jury Award For Archival Storytelling, has been removed from the festival’s streaming website after fans published clips from the film on Tiktok and Instagram.
The organization sent an e -mail message Friday afternoon and informed those who have access to the website that the film is no longer available.
“We acknowledge and regret that this can cause disappointment, but part of our commitment to advocating for independent filmmakers ensures that they can protect their art that they have created and serve their lives – now and in the future,” read the e -mail. “We take copyright infringement extremely seriously and intend to cooperate with local, state and federal law enforcement.”
The Sundance program described the movie that after “Selena Quintanilla – ‘Queen of Tejano Music’ – and her family tape, Selena Y Los Dinos, steps from performing at Quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and inheritance is chronic by never before seen pictures from The family’s personal archive. Lifelong fuck or just discover Selena, Castro offers an intimate new lens to experience Selena’s legacy.
Selena was obviously a cultural phenomenon, whose life was tragic short when her former boss shot her in 1995. The singer, at CUSP of a crossover break, was only 23. She has generations of fans, who eagerly looking for all new pieces of materials from the felled star. Sending around clips from the documentary was probably inevitable, although it happens so early is remarkable.
The jury quotation for the documentary reads, “This award goes to a film that transported us to a certain time and place and developed the themes of family, inheritance, love and teenage. The power of history speaks to the archive’s essential character-which is used in this film to map the emergence of once in the generation talent. “
