Selena y Los Dinos: Free Film Screening @ Libbey Bowl

SELENA Y LOS DINOS | FRIDAY, JULY 10 | DOORS 6:30

SPECIAL GUEST: Q+A with Director ISABEL CASTRO

2025 | Run Time: 1 hr 57 min | DOCUMENTARY | PG

Directed by: Isabel Castro

Premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling, Selena y Los Dinos offers a deeply personal and vibrant portrait of the beloved Tejano music icon, Selena. Drawing from the Quintanilla family’s private archive, presenting never-before-seen footage, the film highlights Selena’s rise and the unwavering support of her family band. The Quintanilla family — father Abraham, mother Marcella, brother A.B., sister Suzette, and Selena’s husband, Chris Pérez — provide candid insights into the hard work behind Selena’s success, and highlight how she shattered barriers for women in Tejano music and created a sound uniquely her own.

“... a dextrous feat that brings Selena Quintanilla to life anew through the archives. The film simply evokes the presence of a wonderful voice and soul.” – Pat Mullen, POV Magazine

“... the closest to a first-hand profile one could ever get about someone whose full artistic potential will forever remain a mystery.” – Carlos Aguilar, Variety

“... a potent reminder of both what her loss means and why her work is still so vital.” – Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire

SPECIAL GUEST: ISABEL CASTRO

Director, Selena y Los Dinos

Isabel Castro is a five time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker who combines a practice in journalism and art. 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 and an audience award at SXSW. 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 a producer, cinematographer and multimedia journalist for The New York Times, as an Edward R. Murrow-award winning producer at The Marshall Project, and as an Emmy-nominated 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.

THE DETAILS

• This event is FREE to attend. You can check-in at any entrance to the Bowl.
• Doors open at 6:30PM
• Plan to arrive early. Pack snacks, bring layers and a blanket (especially if you want to sit on the grass!)
• Libbey Bowl has eleven wheelchair accessible seats. To learn more, visit ojai.ca.gov/CivicAlerts
• We encourage walking, biking, and carpooling. Bike racks are available onsite.
• If driving, street parking is available. Please follow local street signs.
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2026 SUMMER SERIES: WILD IS THE NIGHT…

Join us weekly through July and the second half of August for FREE at Libbey Bowl.

• Thursday, July 2 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Firday, July 10 | Selena y Los Dinos
• Firday, July 17 | Cookie Queens
• Firday, July 24 | Best in Show
• Thursday, August 20 | Arrival
• Thursday, August 27 | Jurassic Park

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