Amy Winehouse's family criticise documentary about her life

A film about Amy Winehouse's life has been condemned as "misleading" by her family as they distanced themselves from the project.

The documentary, called 'Amy', is directed by Asif Kapadia and will be shown at this year's Cannes Film Festival - nearly four years after the singer died in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning.

But in a statement, a spokesman for the Winehouse family said they "would like to disassociate themselves from the forthcoming film about their much missed and beloved Amy".

However the film makers said that they approached the film with "total objectivity" and insisted the story it tells is "a reflection of our findings" from around 100 interviews with people who knew the star.