Candid footage captured by Selena’s sister is the treasured heart of a new documentary about the late singer

Selena Quintanilla Pérez is seen during a visit to a local middle school in Corpus Christi, Texas on November 14, 1994. George Gongora/USA Today Network/Imagn

First, there was the 1997 Gregory Nava biopic starring Jennifer Lopez. Then, there was the scripted Netflix series that came out in 2020. Now, the late Queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla Perez , is having her story told directly by her family and bandmates.

In many ways, we have her sister Suzette Quintanilla to thank for “Selena y Los Dinos,” the Netflix documentary debuting Monday.

“I was the annoying one with the camera, like, back in the day,” Quintanilla told CNN in a recent interview. “I have so much footage of all the guys giving me that look like, ‘Ugh, not again.’”

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, Quintanilla, now the