Isabel Castro

Bio

Isabel Castro is a five-time Emmy-nominated Mexican-American filmmaker and photographer. Her latest documentary, Selena y Los Dinos, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2025. It won a Special Jury Award for archival storytelling in the Documentary Competition, multiple audience awards, and premiered on Netflix. Her first feature film, Mija (Sundance Film Festival 2022), was a New York Times critics’ pick, won a Cinema Eye Award, and 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 the Emmy®-nominated Netflix docu-series Pandemic. 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. She is developing her first scripted feature with The Department of Motion Pictures and working on Untitled Los Angeles, a photography and film project.