Simply hours after successful a Sundance Movie Competition award, Isabel Castro’s documentary “Selena y Los Dinos” has been faraway from the pageant’s streaming website. That’s as a result of, as IndieWire understands, viewers at residence have been importing self-recorded clips of the movie to social media.
On Friday afternoon, the pageant despatched an electronic mail to accredited press, noting the elimination. It learn: “The Sundance Movie Competition and the artistic group of ‘Selena y Los Dinos‘ are sorry to tell our viewers that the movie has suffered a sequence of copyright infringements and should due to this fact be faraway from the Sundance Movie Competition on-line platform. We remorse that you’ll not be capable of entry the movie on the platform. We acknowledge and remorse that this will trigger disappointment, nevertheless a part of our dedication to advocating for unbiased filmmakers is guaranteeing that they’ll defend their artwork that they’ve created and earn a residing — now and sooner or later.”
The e-mail concluded, “We take copyright infringement extraordinarily critically and intend to completely cooperate with native, state, and federal regulation enforcement.”
Within the 5 years of creating its lineup obtainable on-line to ticket-holders, beginning in 2021 when the pageant went briefly digital as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, no different movie is believed to have been pulled from the platform because of comparable considerations.
A supply tells IndieWire the difficulty stemmed from viewers posting their very own clips of the movie on social media. It’s not a difficulty with the contents of the movie itself, which features a treasure trove of archival footage and follows the life and profession of the beloved late Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla.
Ryan Lattanzio contributed reporting.