In our first look at the new documentary film Amy, singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse seems reluctant to become famous. “I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything besides a musician,” Winehouse says in the archival footage, dated just before the release of her 2006 Grammy-award winning album Back to Black. “I don’t think I’m gonna be at all famous. I don’t think I could handle it. I’d probably go mad.”
Amy was created using unheard recordings and archived video footage, tracing Winehouse’s rise from anonymity to fame, and eventually, to her untimely demise. The film is slated for a UK release on July 3rd, nearly four years to the day that Winehouse was found dead from accidental alcohol poisoning.
At the end of the clip, the various archival segments are combined to form a mosaic image of Winehouse. Directed by Senna filmmaker Asif Kapadia and produced by Exit Through the Gift Shop’s James Gay-Rees, Amy is sure to be a moving tribute to Amy Winehouse and her legacy.