The director has responded to accusations that he went into the documentary “with an agenda”.

Asif Kapadia has rejected claims that he misrepresented Amy Winehouse’s relationship with her father in his forthcoming film about the singer, Amy. In an interview with the Independent, Kapadia addressed Mitch Winehouse’s complaint that he had been misrepresented as an absent father.

Asked if there was an agenda behind the film, he said: “How can you go into something with an agenda, if when I started, I didn’t know any of the story, or the people? I’m not in the music industry. It was just a question of talking to the people and seeing what the story was. It took a while for people to talk.”

Mitch Winehouse spoke out against the film in April, calling it “misleading”. “I was there every day,” he told BBC Newsbeat. “And if I wasn’t there – because I was working or I was away somewhere or she was away somewhere – she’d phone seven times a day. And there’s no sense of that in the film and that’s what’s disappointing.”

Kapadia also talked about the humour in the film despite the tragedy of Winehouse’s early death. “I was surprised by how funny she was. She was very clever. If you just saw the last few years of her life, you didn’t know. I wasn’t aware of how amazing her lyrics were. Once you read the lyrics, you understand that all the answers are there. There is nothing in the film that isn’t already in the lyrics.”

Amy arrives in cinemas on July 3 following a nationwide preview on June 3. Watch the trailer and a clip from the film below.