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A new documentary about late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley<\/a> premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival<\/a>. Director Amy Berg<\/a>\u2019s It\u2019s Never Over, Jeff Buckley<\/em><\/a> was years in the making, and includes never-before-seen footage from Buckley\u2019s archives, as well as interviews with the artist\u2019s mother, Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, hiss former bandmates, and musicians like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann. Today, Magnolia Pictures<\/a> has released the first official trailer for the film. Check it out below, and scroll down for the movie poster.<\/p>\n It\u2019s Never Over, Jeff Buckley<\/em> arrives in theaters on Friday, August 8. It will premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max in the winter.<\/p>\n In a director\u2019s statement, Berg revealed that she has been trying to make a documentary on Buckley for nearly 20 years. \u201cI first approached Mary, Jeff\u2019s mom, in 2007,\u201d she said. \u201cIt seemed like she wanted to work together, but she opted out.\u201d<\/p>\n The filmmaker continued: \u201cShe wanted to make a scripted film and offered it to me to direct, but after exploring the incredible archive, I knew this was a doc. I couldn\u2019t get Jeff\u2019s final voicemail to his mother out of my mind for years. It made me cry on many occasions as it probably will for you. I reached out to [Mary] every time I finished a film, and she \u2018politely\u2019 declined. Until the summer of 2019. My timing was finally right! I can honestly say the euphoria still hasn\u2019t settled.\u201d<\/p>\n The film touches on Buckley\u2019s childhood, his prominence in New York\u2019s avant-garde downtown scene in the early 1990s, and his rise to fame with the release of his masterful 1994 debut\u2014and only studio album\u2014Grace<\/em><\/a>. Berg\u2019s documentary pays special attention to the women who were pivotal in Buckley\u2019s life, including his mother, who raised him alone. (Buckley met his father, the famed folk singer Tim Buckley, only once, when he was eight years old.)<\/p>\n Jeff Buckley died<\/a> in 1997 at the age of 30. During that time period, he had been working on his sophomore LP, My Sweetheart the Drunk<\/em>, with producer and Television frontman Tom Verlaine. The collected recordings of those sessions, titled Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk<\/em><\/a> were released in 1998.<\/p>\n