Watch: Jeff Buckley Documentary Trailer Released

“Come into my world,” Jeff Buckley whispers in the opening seconds of the trailer for the upcoming documentary, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.

• Amazing 'Grace': How Australia Gave Jeff Buckley His Biggest Hit

The documentary, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, has been in the making for 30 years. It’s described as a documentary about love, while capturing his extraordinary influence despite releasing only one album before his tragic passing.

Featuring interviews with his family and loved ones and musicians such as Aimee Mann and Ben Harper, plus archival footage from Alanis Morissette describing Buckley as her “absolute favourite” artist, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley looks like a treasure trove of material for fans of the iconic singer.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on Thursday, 21 August, at 9:15 pm at the Hoyts 11, Melbourne Central shopping centre theatre. A second screening will take place on Saturday, 23 August, at 3:45 pm at the Astor Theatre, St Kilda. You can find out more about the MIFF screenings here.

A synopsis of the documentary reads: “Mystery and mythology swirl around It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, Amy Berg's exploration of the singer whose ethereal voice and tragic death at 30 left an indelible mark on music history.

“This music doc dives deep into Buckley's artistic process and complicated relationship with his father, featuring rare footage and intimate interviews that illuminate a talent gone too soon.”

You can watch the trailer for the documentary below.

Jeff Buckley’s influence stretched far and wide, with Australian performer Katie Noonan taking her tribute concert, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, on tour across the country from September to November. In a recent interview with The Music, she remarked about Buckley’s musicianship and songwriting:

Jeff sang from a place of vulnerability and truth, and a sort of refreshingly raw earnestness, which, in the mid-’90s, that was not happening. His album, in my opinion, was the beginning of the next revolution and generation of singer-songwriters that really spoke from a place of truth and vulnerability; particularly as a man, that was even more rare. And he represented that gentle, beautiful, male energy that was very true and overly romantic, and all the things.