Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’ a celebration, its makers say

The biographical feature film follows Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame and portrays her relationships with her family and former husband Blake Fielder-Civil

Amy Winehouse's lyrics and music were the "guiding star" for director Sam Taylor-Johnson in bringing the late singer's story to the screen in "Back to Black".

The biographical feature film follows Winehouse's rise to fame and portrays her relationships with her family and former husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

It comes nearly 13 years after the six-time Grammy Award winner died from alcohol poisoning, aged 27. Considered one of the most talented singers of her generation, her untimely death shook the music world.

Telling the story from Winehouse's point of view was essential to Taylor-Johnson.

"I just wanted it to be in her perspective to kind of give her her agency back because I felt like it had been kind of taken away and she'd just become a victim of her tragedy," she said at the film's world premiere in London on Monday.

"I felt like doing it through her words, her music, kind of like brought the music back to life and celebrated her again, and that felt so important. It felt like she deserved that."

British actress Marisa Abela plays Winehouse, a role she found both daunting and a dream.