This July, the life and career of Amy Winehousewill be the focus of a new documentary titled Amy. The film incorporates previously unheard recordings and unseen archival footage, and in the first teaser trailer, we see Winehouses rise from a young girl to a budding star to a global sensation using footage from the singers personal home movies.
Singing has always been important to me, but I never thought Id end up singing or be a singer. I just thought Im lucky that its something I can always do if I want to, Winehouse says. The documentary uses Winehouses own words to tell her story, and in the trailer, the singer paints herself as a reluctant star anxious about her own fame before she released her Grammy-winning breakout albumBack to Blackin 2006.
Im not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything besides a musician, Winehouse says through archival footage. I dont think Im gonna be at all famous. I dont think I could handle it. Id probably go mad. At teasers end, all the home movies of Winehouse form a mosaic of the Rehab singer as she admits to an interviewer that shes unable to trust anyone.
Amy, directed by Senna filmmaker Asif Kapadia and produced by Exit Through the Gift Shops James Gay-Rees, is set to premiere in the U.K. on July 3rd, nearly four years after Winehouse died of accidental alcohol poisoning at the age of 27. Deadline reportsthat A24 has acquired Amys U.S. distribution rights.
