Isabel Castro is a five time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker who combines a practice in journalism and art.

Her latest feature, Selena y Los Dinos, explores the life and enduring legacy of Selena Quintanilla using never-before-seen footage of Selena and intimate interviews with her family. Mija, which had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2022, is her first feature film and 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. She is in development on her first scripted feature with The Department of Motion Pictures.