A documentary about Amy Winehouse failed to convey the late singer’s “sense of fun”, said her father.
Mitch Winehouse said on Thursday that the film, directed by Asif Kapadia, was “very hurtful” and had “missed a trick” by focusing on her drug addiction.
He appeared to confirm that he was planning his own tribute to the life of his daughter, but that it would not be a “revenge attack” on Kapadia.
“We are looking to do something positive. There are so many great things in Amy’s life that were missed in that film. It was a great opportunity that Asif Kapadia had and he didn’t grab it,” said Winehouse. “Let’s hear something new about Amy.”
The singer’s father was speaking at the annual Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala at the Savoy hotel in central London, which was attended by stars including her friend and collaborator Mark Ronson.
The foundation aims to help young people overcome drug and alcohol problems.
The singer died in 2011 aged 27 after a well-publicised battle with drink and drugs.
Her father said the government was failing to provide the help and support that many young people with addiction issues needed, but that charities aiming to help them faced considerable difficulty in raising funds.
“Amy loved cats. It would have been easier for us to raise shedloads of money and open up a cat charity or a donkey charity, we wouldn’t have any problem raising money,” he said.
“You try to raise money for homeless young people or people suffering from drug addiction or alcohol, still the prevailing thought among a lot of people is, ‘well no one forced them to drink’.”
He also offered an insight into his daughter’s charitable streak, telling how she once found a burglar in her home and offered to cook him dinner.
“A burglar broke into her house and she heard him downstairs,” he said. “She went downstairs and he saw it was Amy and he said ‘sorry I didn’t know it was you, if I had known it was your house I wouldn’t have burgled it’.
“She said ‘well, can I get you something to eat?’ She ended up looking after him.”
