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.