Amy Berg ’s new documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is off to a hot start at the box office, earning $400,000 in its opening weekend of limited release. That’s a testament to Berg’s filmmaking skill and to the legions of devoted Jeff Buckley fans, who feel passionately about the singer-songwriter’s music almost 30 years after his untimely passing.
Berg joins the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to share when she first heard music by the singer-songwriter-guitarist and her long journey to making the film. The director interviewed the key women in Buckley’s life including his mother, Mary Guibert, who had Jeff when she was just 17 years old, and Buckley’s former romantic partners, Rebecca Moore and musician Joan Wasser. Moore had never spoken publicly before