EXCLUSIVE: Shortly after winning a Sundance Film Festival Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling, the Isabel Castro movie Selena y Los Dinos has been removed from the festival’s streaming site.
We hear that die-hard fans were recording one- to three-minute pieces of the documentary and posting them on TikTok and Instagram. Sundance has never had this type of situation occur in their five years of making the lineup available online to ticket-holders, and the fest is taking copyright and artistic ownership quite seriously.
Given the passionate audience for the late Queen of Tejano Music, Sundance and the filmmakers scrubbed the documentary out of an abundance of caution.
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“The Sundance Film Festival and the creative team of Selena y Los Dinos are sorry to inform our viewers that the film has suffered a series of copyright infringements and must therefore be removed
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