Amy filmmaker Asif Kapadia has said he hopes the documentary will make people think about the effect they may have had on the singer before her death.

The film looks back over Amy Winehouse’s life before she died aged 27, using archive footage that sees her talking about her own career.

It has not had the support of her parents who didn’t like an early version they were shown, but Kapadia said he was hoping to show a new side to the troubled singer.

He said: “The aim of our film was to try and understand why things panned out the way they did and to try to show the real Amy. The first section of the film, you see a side of her that no one’s really seen before.

“I felt our main objective was to show a new interpretation, for people to see her in another way and then maybe think about their own part in what happened to her later on.

Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse (Anthony Devlin/PA)

“If in doubt, you just go back to her own songs because she’s said everything already in her own songs.

“So it may be uncomfortable for some people, but this all happened and I think that at some point people need to look at the decisions that they made which were going on when Amy wasn’t particularly well.”

Kapadia went on: “I’m not sure that fame coming at the particular time when it did was good for her.

“That type of fame, level of international stardom, together with the media suddenly changing and becoming digital, together with meeting a particular guy and changing management, it just seemed like everything happening at the same time and with her grandmother dying, it was like a perfect storm.”

Amy is released in cinemas on July 3.