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  • Family calls Amy Winehouse documentary misleading

    Family calls Amy Winehouse documentary misleading

    MUMBAI: Just a few weeks before the world premiere of the Amy Winehouse documentary titled Amy, the family of the late singer has spoken out strongly against it.

     

    The Hollywood Reporter recently reported that the family wanted to “disassociate themselves” from Amy, directed by British filmmaker AsifKapadia, of the Sennafame, the 2010 documentary about late Formula 1 driver AyrtonSenna.

     

    “They feel that the film is a missed opportunity to celebrate her life and talent and that it is both misleading and contains some basic untruths,” the family’s spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that there were allegations made in the doc against the family and management that were “unfounded and unbalanced.”

     

    The late singer’s family further opines, “The narrative is formed by the testimony of a narrow sample of Amy’s associates, many of whom had nothing to do with her in the last years of her life. By misunderstanding the condition and its treatment, the film suggests, for instance, that not enough was done for Amy, that her family and management pushed her into performing or did not do enough to help her.”

     

    Speaking to The Sun, Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse claimed that he “felt sick” when he first saw the film. “Amy would be furious. This is not what she would have wanted. I am painted as being an absent father during her last years. It gives the impression the family weren’t there,” he said.

     

    Mitch Winehouse also claimed that the filmmakers “had a pretty good idea of the film they wanted to make from the off” and on Monday told BBC radio that he would look to “sue for damages” if the film cut screened at Cannes was shown to misrepresent him.

     

    In response to the allegations, the filmmakers claimed they came on board with the “full backing of the Winehouse family” and approached the project with “total objectivity.”

     

    “During the production process, we conducted in the region of 100 interviews with people that knew Amy Winehouse; friends, family, former partners and members of the music industry that worked with her,” they said. “The story that the film tells is a reflection of our findings from these interviews.”

  • Amy Winehouse documentary on the cards by ‘Senna’ director

    Amy Winehouse documentary on the cards by ‘Senna’ director

    MUMBAI: Asif Kapadia – director of the documentary ‘Senna’, based on the life of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, is slated to now document the life of the late singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse in an untitled documentary. Focus Features would be introducing the project to buyers at Cannes this year.
     
    Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, five years after rising to international fame with her “Back to Black” album.
     
    ‘Senna‘ producer James Gay-Rees will produce through it Playmaker Films, Gay-Rees and Kapadia’s new production entity. The film will be co-produced by Universal Music.
     
    “This is an incredibly modern, emotional and relevant film that has the power to capture the zeitgeist and shine a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few films can,” Kapadia and Gay-Rees said. “Amy was a once-in-a-generation talent who captured everyone’s attention; she wrote and sung from the heart and everyone fell under her spell. But tragically Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle,” they further added.