Amy Winehouse was many things: artist, icon, victim of celebrity. For London-born director Asif Kapadia, she was basically the girl next door.
Kapadia, who made award-winning documentary "Senna" about Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, lived and worked in some of the same north London neighborhoods as Winehouse. Like millions of others, he also watched with horrified fascination as the singer's struggles with love, drugs and alcohol were splattered across the media in the years before her death from alcohol poisoning in 2011. Kapadia, whose documentary about Winehouse, "Amy," is playing at the Cannes Film Festival said "I very much felt, 'I can't believe this is happening down the road from where I live, One of my reasons for wanting to do it was, I've finally found a subject to do about home.??
