Amy’s dad reveals he’s collaborating with Amy’s boyfriend Reg Traviss, her friends and Phil Griffin who directed Rehab and Back To Black video, with work starting shortly.
Fans of the late Amy Winehouse will soon be able to remember the singer the way her family and friends want them to as they reveal plans for their own tribute to her.
Speaking on the red carpet at last night’s Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala at London’s Savoy hotel, dad Mitch Winehouse told heat: “We’ve got a couple of projects in the pipeline – it’s not going to be a revenge attack [on the film], it will be concentrating on Amy’s positivity and creativity, which up to now has been largely ignored.”
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Earlier this year, Mitch criticised the film Amy, a British documentary about the singer’s life, for not showing his daughter’s fun side, claiming it to be “both misleading and contain[ing] some basic untruths.”
He tells us: “We’re working with Reg [Traviss, Amy’s ex-fiancé], all the people who weren’t in the film, they’re hopping mad, they want their voices to be heard.
“We want people [who knew Amy] to tell their story. We are going to collaborate with Phil Griffin, who was Amy’s good friend and who directed Rehab video and Back To Black video. We are excited. We hope to start work fairly shortly on it – it hopes to be more than just a film.”
He continued: “Amy created a range of dresses – six Fred Perry seasons – and they’re still selling. There’s more to Amy than just the singing so there’s a great story to be told.”
For more information on the The Amy Winehouse Foundation