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15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Selena Y Los Dinos' Documentary Feature Acquired By Netflix
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going to bring 'Bidi Bidi Bom Bom' into the homes of Selena Quintanilla fans all over the world as the streamer acquires the rights to the documentary feature Selena y Los Dinos, directed by Isabel Castro. The film will be released globally on Netflix later this winter. The news arrives following a late February story from Deadline's Editor-in-Chief of Film, Mike Fleming, Jr., which revealed the streamer was working on a $6M to $7M deal to acquire the title. He said the deal 'puts a different face on the recently completed Sundance fest, because that is a high amount for a documentary.' 'Selena y Los Dinos became so popular that when Sundance put it on its portal for industry to watch, the film had to be taken down so quickly because fervent fans were getting hold of clips and posting them,' he added. More from Deadline Netflix Unveils Premiere Date, First-Look Photos For Romance 'My Oxford Year' Starring Sofia Carson & Corey Mylchreest Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far Lena Dunham's 'Too Much' Comedy Series Gets Netflix Premiere Date; First Look The project follows Quintanilla — the 'Queen of Tejano Music' — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, which rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family's personal archive. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling. The accolade was followed by Audience Awards at both SXSW and Miami Film Festivals. 'We are so excited to finally share that our documentary Selena y Los Dinos is coming to Netflix! Grateful to have a platform that helps bring Selena's story to fans around the world,' shared Quintanilla's sister, Suzette Quintanilla, who also executive produced the doc, in a statement to Deadline. Added director Castro, 'It is an absolute honor to partner with Netflix, who will bring Selena y Los Dinos to a worldwide audience. Selena's legacy is so meaningful and continues to inspire millions. As a filmmaker, I wanted to honor her extraordinary rise and enduring legacy, while also giving a window into her life behind the stage. Through personal archive and intimate interviews with her family, the film reveals new dimensions of her journey that have never been seen before. I am deeply grateful to her family for their trust and support throughout this journey, and I can't wait for a global audience to experience the magic, heart, and community that Selena gave to all of us.' At 23 years old, Selena Quintanilla's life was cut short in 1995, and her death deeply shook the Latino community. Her musical legacy remains extremely popular today. In addition to Suzette Quintanilla, their brother AB Quintanilla III, and Michele Anthony, executive produced Selena y Los Dinos. Polygram Entertainment, Amsi Entertainment, and Motto Pictures produced the title. Producers include Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, and Simran Singh. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About The 'Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping' Movie So Far TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2025 So Far Book-To-Movie Adaptations Coming Out In 2025
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Selena y Los PhDinos: How the singer's legacy has helped shape academia
Sitting in front of a wall covered in drawings of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Nathian Rodriguez remembers hearing the news of Selena's death at his family's home in the small town of Balmorhea, Texas. "I remember I was trying to figure out, 'How am I going to find out this information?' We only had 13 channels and Univision was one of them, but it wasn't really covering it," Rodriguez said. "The nearest Tejano radio station was Midland-Odessa, which was about a two-hour drive from us." In order to get a signal to hear the news, he decided to take matters into his own hands — literally. "And so I remember taking the coaxial cable out of the wall, then I would get the radio and I'd get the antenna, and I'd touch them together," he said. "So the coaxial cable would give it enough power to pick up this station from Midland-Odessa, so I could hear [the news] live as it was happening." Read more: In 'Selena y Los Dinos,' we see the Tejano queen through the eyes of her sister Nearly 25 years after his MacGyver-esque efforts, he found himself once again centering part of his life around the Tejano icon, but this time in the classroom. Now serving as an associate director and associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University, Rodriguez has been teaching a college course about Selena since 2020. With "Selena and Latinx Media Representation," as the class is officially known, he is among the growing number of higher education instructors at universities with sizable Latinx populations who are using the "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" singer's life and legacy as an entry point to explore a plethora of topics in Latinx/Chicanx culture. "When I created this course, I thought, 'Well, this is perfect,'" Rodriguez said. "I can think of an example for every single thing that I know about Selena that can relate back to the global flow of music, relate back to the issues of machismo and marianismo, the issues about immigration, the issues about women and how they're represented and sexualized and hyper-sexualized. There's ways that I can also relate it back to language and code-switching." But what is it about Selena specifically that raises her to the level of scrutiny she has acquired? Sonya Alemán — an associate professor of the Mexican American studies program in the race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality studies department at the University of Texas at San Antonio — surmised that it is, in part, because Selena remains among the few examples of a Latinx star achieving recognition across a wide swath of society. "She still is the one person in the pop cultural world, in the mainstream, that [Latinx people] can look at that reflects us, that we identify with, that tells our story," Alemán said. "She's one of the few that has been allowed in. And so we have to keep coming back to her if we want to have any kind of representation, to feel seen in that way." Read more: Selena's killer is denied parole 30 years after shooting Latin superstar Alemán got the idea to launch her course on Selena at UTSA in fall 2020 after seeing similar courses about music megastars pop up at her university and throughout the country. "UTSA offered a course for two semesters on Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' album and it was very successful. It had a lot of media attention and students were eager to get into that class." she said. "Over the course of my career, I've seen courses on Harry Potter ... I've seen courses on Prince. In San Marcos, which is just about 45 miles north of San Antonio, there's a course on Taylor Swift. There's a seminar right now at Trinity University [in San Antonio] on Taylor Swift." What she really hopes is for her students to be able to learn about themselves and see their own cultural touchstones reflected in Selena's Mexican American identity. "So as much as we talk about her, we are also talking about my students' lives and how they experience the world with that identity," Alemán noted. "When you can create an educational space that validates values and centers that history and those ways of knowing students have a different level of engagement of learning than they have ever had in another course ... and it's just this thirst that they didn't even know they had to value their own histories and the knowledge in their community." The centerpiece assignment for Alemán's course functions to directly connect students with their community through a series of interviews with a multigenerational selection of Selena fans. One interview must be with a first-generation fan — someone who was alive while Selena was — and two interviews must be conducted with second-generation fans, who were born after the "Si Una Vez" artist's death. Read more: 'An unfinished masterpiece': Revisiting Selena's landmark crossover album, 'Dreaming of You,' at 25 Each of her students is tasked with examining their interviews to look for patterns, differences and similarities among the conversations. They are then grouped with two other peers in their class, asked to critically analyze one another's interviews and create a presentation. That newly discovered information about Selena fans helps to serve as data points that advance Alemán's class beyond the somewhat dated media covered in her syllabus. "We have learned a whole lot about the second-generation set of Selena fans and that knowledge doesn't exist in the scholarly archive that we use as our course material because they were primarily writing about the first decade and a half after her death," she explained. Over the course of the four semesters that she's taught the class, Alemán's students have created an impressive database from their roughly 300 self-conducted interviews. "It's been incredible to use this course as a way to validate the knowledge that exists in our communities about who [Selena] is and why she matters and to help students see themselves as scholars gathering and making sense of that information," Alemán said. Read more: 'Selena' turns 25: Jennifer Lopez celebrates 'the magic that is this movie' Selena's image and legacy has been used for people to explore more parts of their identity beyond ethnic and cultural ties, as pointed out by Anita Tijerina Revilla, who serves as the department chair and professor of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) studies at Cal State L.A. One way she incorporates Selena into her courses is by looking at the Tejano artist's impact on the LGBTQ+ community. Revilla is an expert in Jotería studies, a field of study that examines the lives and histories of queer and gender nonconforming Latinx/Chicanx people. The name of the academic fields serves as an act of reclamation of derogatory terms that have been hurled at queer Latinx folks for decades. "You can go to any nightclub, see a drag show and expect to see Selena represented," Revilla said. "For queer people, I think it's a sense of belonging, a sense of seeing themselves in this woman with her pride in herself as a woman, as a person who is very performance-based ... so there's lots of people who can resonate with her." As someone who identifies as queer, Rodriguez also dedicates a considerable amount of time in his course to Selena's ties to LGBTQ+ culture. "We look at drag queens and how Selena has become very much this cultural icon for drag queens and for gay men. We look at this idea of the diva and how gay men — whether you're Mexican American or whatever — what you had in the past to look up to were women," Rodriguez said. Read more: Selena's music and warmth draw thousands to Corpus Christi 24 years after her death He also pointed to the song "Amor Prohibido" as having queer undertones with its theme of sharing a love that society isn't willing to accept. But no academic conversation about Selena would be complete without discussing the gender dynamics at play with the purple jumpsuit-wearing pop star. Jose Anguiano, a professor of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) studies at Cal State L.A., commented on how the "Dreaming of You" singer's life embodied a "quintessential" Chicana story. "I think a lot of Chicanas relate to the idea of not quite being accepted in the mainstream or having these different expectations put upon you," Anguiano said of the struggle of being caught between two cultures. "[Selena had] a conservative dad, right? A lot of Chicanos, I think, grew up with a very socially, sexually conservative dad." Read more: Selena's family says decision to deny her killer parole 'reaffirms that justice continues to stand' Even after her death, the Quintanilla patriarch has continued to control his daughter's image. "He's tried to shape as best he can and control the narrative around Selena," Anguiano said. "He's tried to be the one who gets to tell her story and the family story through the TV show [and movie]." Rodriguez added to this theme of control of Selena's image and the gendered implications of it all. "When we see [family-authorized Selena media], it's a very controlled narrative that really feeds into this marianismo idea of what a woman is supposed to be. Yes, she was curvaceous and she was bustier and she broke down barriers, but she was also very chaste," Rodriguez said. Marianismo refers to a traditional and conservative archetype used to describe women from Latin America and its diaspora that's modeled after the Virgin Mary. Read more: From the Archives: Selena was on brink of major crossover, 'up there with the Janets and the Madonnas' But despite the Quintanilla family's best efforts, it's Selena's loyal fans who have given the music idol ever-growing layers of complexity and have crafted a continuously morphing image of Selena and what she represents in society. "When [someone] becomes a community folklore hero, it's up to the community and the fandom to really take control of how we remember them, and they become in some ways a blank canvas to be able to project onto them particular ideas," Anguiano said. "It's incredible that 30 years later we're still talking about her life and it continues to still be significant in the past and for today's Chicanos and Chicanas." Get our Latinx Files newsletter for stories that capture the complexity of our communities. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Selena y Los PhDinos: How the singer's legacy has helped shape academia
Sitting in front of a wall covered in drawings of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Nathian Rodriguez remembers hearing the news of Selena's death at his family's home in the small town of Balmorhea, Texas. 'I remember I was trying to figure out, 'How am I going to find out this information?' We only had 13 channels and Univision was one of them, but it wasn't really covering it,' Rodriguez said. 'The nearest Tejano radio station was Midland-Odessa, which was about a two-hour drive from us.' In order to get a signal to hear the news, he decided to take matters into his own hands — literally. 'And so I remember taking the coaxial cable out of the wall, then I would get the radio and I'd get the antenna, and I'd touch them together,' he said. 'So the coaxial cable would give it enough power to pick up this station from Midland-Odessa, so I could hear [the news] live as it was happening.' Nearly 25 years after his MacGyver-esque efforts, he found himself once again centering part of his life around the Tejano icon, but this time in the classroom. Now serving as an associate director and associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University, Rodriguez has been teaching a college course about Selena since 2020. With 'Selena and Latinx Media Representation,' as the class is officially known, he is among the growing number of higher education instructors at universities with sizable Latinx populations who are using the 'Bidi Bidi Bom Bom' singer's life and legacy as an entry point to explore a plethora of topics in Latinx/Chicanx culture. 'When I created this course, I thought, 'Well, this is perfect,'' Rodriguez said. 'I can think of an example for every single thing that I know about Selena that can relate back to the global flow of music, relate back to the issues of machismo and marianismo, the issues about immigration, the issues about women and how they're represented and sexualized and hyper-sexualized. There's ways that I can also relate it back to language and code-switching.' But what is it about Selena specifically that raises her to the level of scrutiny she has acquired? Sonya Alemán — an associate professor of the Mexican American studies program in the race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality studies department at the University of Texas at San Antonio — surmised that it is, in part, because Selena remains among the few examples of a Latinx star achieving recognition across a wide swath of society. 'She still is the one person in the pop cultural world, in the mainstream, that [Latinx people] can look at that reflects us, that we identify with, that tells our story,' Alemán said. 'She's one of the few that has been allowed in. And so we have to keep coming back to her if we want to have any kind of representation, to feel seen in that way.' Alemán got the idea to launch her course on Selena at UTSA in fall 2020 after seeing similar courses about music megastars pop up at her university and throughout the country. 'UTSA offered a course for two semesters on Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' album and it was very successful. It had a lot of media attention and students were eager to get into that class.' she said. 'Over the course of my career, I've seen courses on Harry Potter ... I've seen courses on Prince. In San Marcos, which is just about 45 miles north of San Antonio, there's a course on Taylor Swift. There's a seminar right now at Trinity University [in San Antonio] on Taylor Swift.' What she really hopes is for her students to be able to learn about themselves and see their own cultural touchstones reflected in Selena's Mexican American identity. 'So as much as we talk about her, we are also talking about my students' lives and how they experience the world with that identity,' Alemán noted. 'When you can create an educational space that validates values and centers that history and those ways of knowing students have a different level of engagement of learning than they have ever had in another course ... and it's just this thirst that they didn't even know they had to value their own histories and the knowledge in their community.' The centerpiece assignment for Alemán's course functions to directly connect students with their community through a series of interviews with a multigenerational selection of Selena fans. One interview must be with a first-generation fan — someone who was alive while Selena was — and two interviews must be conducted with second-generation fans, who were born after the 'Si Una Vez' artist's death. Each of her students is tasked with examining their interviews to look for patterns, differences and similarities among the conversations. They are then grouped with two other peers in their class, asked to critically analyze one another's interviews and create a presentation. That newly discovered information about Selena fans helps to serve as data points that advance Alemán's class beyond the somewhat dated media covered in her syllabus. 'We have learned a whole lot about the second-generation set of Selena fans and that knowledge doesn't exist in the scholarly archive that we use as our course material because they were primarily writing about the first decade and a half after her death,' she explained. Over the course of the four semesters that she's taught the class, Alemán's students have created an impressive database from their roughly 300 self-conducted interviews. 'It's been incredible to use this course as a way to validate the knowledge that exists in our communities about who [Selena] is and why she matters and to help students see themselves as scholars gathering and making sense of that information,' Alemán said. Selena's image and legacy has been used for people to explore more parts of their identity beyond ethnic and cultural ties, as pointed out by Anita Tijerina Revilla, who serves as the department chair and professor of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) studies at Cal State L.A. One way she incorporates Selena into her courses is by looking at the Tejano artist's impact on the LGBTQ+ community. Revilla is an expert in Jotería studies, a field of study that examines the lives and histories of queer and gender nonconforming Latinx/Chicanx people. The name of the academic fields serves as an act of reclamation of derogatory terms that have been hurled at queer Latinx folks for decades. 'You can go to any nightclub, see a drag show and expect to see Selena represented,' Revilla said. 'For queer people, I think it's a sense of belonging, a sense of seeing themselves in this woman with her pride in herself as a woman, as a person who is very performance-based ... so there's lots of people who can resonate with her.' As someone who identifies as queer, Rodriguez also dedicates a considerable amount of time in his course to Selena's ties to LGBTQ+ culture. 'We look at drag queens and how Selena has become very much this cultural icon for drag queens and for gay men. We look at this idea of the diva and how gay men — whether you're Mexican American or whatever — what you had in the past to look up to were women,' Rodriguez said. He also pointed to the song 'Amor Prohibido' as having queer undertones with its theme of sharing a love that society isn't willing to accept. But no academic conversation about Selena would be complete without discussing the gender dynamics at play with the purple jumpsuit-wearing pop star. Jose Anguiano, a professor of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) studies at Cal State L.A., commented on how the 'Dreaming of You' singer's life embodied a 'quintessential' Chicana story. 'I think a lot of Chicanas relate to the idea of not quite being accepted in the mainstream or having these different expectations put upon you,' Anguiano said of the struggle of being caught between two cultures. '[Selena had] a conservative dad, right? A lot of Chicanos, I think, grew up with a very socially, sexually conservative dad.' Even after her death, the Quintanilla patriarch has continued to control his daughter's image. 'He's tried to shape as best he can and control the narrative around Selena,' Anguiano said. 'He's tried to be the one who gets to tell her story and the family story through the TV show [and movie].' Rodriguez added to this theme of control of Selena's image and the gendered implications of it all. 'When we see [family-authorized Selena media], it's a very controlled narrative that really feeds into this marianismo idea of what a woman is supposed to be. Yes, she was curvaceous and she was bustier and she broke down barriers, but she was also very chaste,' Rodriguez said. Marianismo refers to a traditional and conservative archetype used to describe women from Latin America and its diaspora that's modeled after the Virgin Mary. But despite the Quintanilla family's best efforts, it's Selena's loyal fans who have given the music idol ever-growing layers of complexity and have crafted a continuously morphing image of Selena and what she represents in society. 'When [someone] becomes a community folklore hero, it's up to the community and the fandom to really take control of how we remember them, and they become in some ways a blank canvas to be able to project onto them particular ideas,' Anguiano said. 'It's incredible that 30 years later we're still talking about her life and it continues to still be significant in the past and for today's Chicanos and Chicanas.'
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yolanda Saldívar, Selena's Murderer, Denied Parole
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied parole for Yolanda Saldívar, the woman serving a life sentence for the 1995 murder of Tejano music icon Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. Saldívar was convicted of fatally shooting the beloved singer at a Corpus Christi Days Inn on March 31, 1995, and became eligible for parole after 30 years. However, after a thorough review, the parole board ruled against her release. 'After a thorough consideration of all available information, which included any confidential interviews conducted, it was the parole panel's determination to deny parole to Yolanda Saldívar and set her next parole review for March 2030,' the board stated. According to NBC News, the board also cited the 'brutality, violence, and assaultive behavior' of the crime as reasons for denial, adding that Saldívar's actions showed a 'conscious disregard' for the safety of others and that she posed a 'continuing threat to public safety.' The decision was met with gratitude from Selena's family, who released a heartfelt statement on Instagram. 'While nothing can bring Selena back, this decision reaffirms that justice continues to stand for the beautiful life that was taken from us and from millions of fans around the world far too soon,' they wrote. 'Selena's legacy is one of love, music, and inspiration. She lived with joy, gave selflessly, and continues to uplift generations with her voice and her spirit.' They also expressed appreciation for the unwavering support from Selena's fans, encouraging them to celebrate her life rather than dwell on the unforgettable tragedy. Saldívar was once a trusted figure in Selena's inner circle, serving as president of her fan club and managing two of her clothing boutiques. However, tensions arose in early 1995 when Selena's family accused her of embezzling money, leading to her being fired. Shortly after, she lured Selena to the motel under the pretense of returning financial documents, but instead, she shot the 23-year-old singer in the back. Selena, gravely wounded, managed to identify Saldívar as the shooter before collapsing in the lobby. Meanwhile, Saldívar barricaded herself in a truck outside, threatening to take her own life before eventually surrendering. During her trial, Saldívar maintained that she never intended to kill Selena, claiming the gun discharged accidentally as she planned to end her own life. A jury found her guilty of first-degree murder in October 1995, sentencing her to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Selena, often referred to as the 'Queen of Tejano Music,' left an indelible mark on the industry with hits like 'Dreaming of You,' 'No Me Queda Más,' and 'Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.' In 1994, she won a Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Album for Live, further cementing her legacy. Her life and career was immortalized in the 1997 biopic Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez. Ahead of her parole eligibility, Saldívar resurfaced in the public eye in the 2024 Oxygen docuseries Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them. In it, she continued to deny the embezzlement accusations and made the shocking, baseless claim that she was covering up an extramarital affair Selena was allegedly having. The documentary sparked outrage among fans even before its release. With her parole officially denied, Saldívar will remain behind bars until at least her next review in 2030. More from Selena's Killer Reportedly Blames Late Singer For Her Own Death Selena's Killer Seeks Parole After Serving 30 Years Of Life Sentence Reports Of Selena's Murderer, Yolanda Saldivar, Wanting To Work With Shakira Upon Parole Are False
CNN
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Selena's killer, Yolanda Saldívar, has been denied parole
The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state's parole board announced Thursday. Yolanda Saldívar is serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O'Daniel prison unit in Gatesville, Texas. A three-member panel of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to not release her, the Associated Press reported. The panel said her case will be eligible to be reviewed again for parole in 2030. The singer known to her fans as simply Selena was one of the first Mexican-Americans to make it into the mainstream music scene and was on the verge of crossing over into the English-language pop market when she was killed. Saldívar founded Selena's fan club and had been the manager of the singer's clothing boutiques, Selena Etc., until she was fired in early March 1995 after money was discovered missing. Selena, a Corpus Christi native, was 23 years old when she was shot in the back with a .38-caliber revolver at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi on March 31, 1995. She was able to run to the motel lobby where she collapsed, and she was pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later. Motel employees testified that Selena named 'Yolanda' in 'room 158' as her attacker. 'I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to kill anybody,' a sobbing Saldívar said during a nine-hour standoff with police. She told police she had bought the .38-caliber revolver to kill herself. More than 50,000 people lined up to view Selena's body the day before she was laid to rest in Seaside Memorial Park on April 3, 1995, just 13 days before her 24th birthday. Saldívar's trial was moved to Houston because of the publicity surrounding the case. Saldívar testified that she had intended to kill herself during the confrontation with Selena, but that the gun misfired. On October 23, 1995, a jury in Houston convicted Saldívar of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. While in prison, Saldívar – a former nurse – obtained her paralegal and associate degree in criminal justice and has filed several civil rights complaints alleging mistreatment by the state's prison system, according to court records. She also helped other inmates to file petitions. In court documents filed in 2016, Saldívar said she was being held in protective custody – meaning she was segregated from other inmates – because prison officials were concerned for her safety due to the 'high profile' nature of her case. She filed several appeals of her conviction but all were rejected. Selena – 'the Queen of Tejano' – rose to stardom and won a Grammy during a Tejano music boom in the early 1990s. Her hits include 'Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,' 'Como la Flor,' 'Amor Prohibido,' 'No Me Queda Mas' and 'Tu Solo Tu.' 'Dreaming of You,' her English-language crossover album released a few months after her death, topped the Billboard 200, and featured hits 'I Could Fall in Love' in addition to the title track. Jennifer Lopez played the singer in 'Selena,' a 1997 biopic. The Grammys awarded Selena a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 2021.
