In 2016, the Scottish director Kevin Macdonald , who won the Academy Award, officially started preparing for Whitney Houston 's documentary. This was the first documentary officially authorized since the death of Whitney Houston in 2012. Kevin Macdonald said in an interview that he plans to use panoramic images to show Whitney's never-disclosed acting career—from her singing in the church choir when she was young, to the age of 48 when she left, and these three. Music videos from the past ten years-including her exclusive recordings, rare performances and other audios. He does not intend to avoid Whitney’s gray life, but he also hopes that the audience will be moved by Whitney and her music when they walk out of the cinema. He wants to show the side of this woman that the most loyal fans don’t know about, and also want to Let people who know her and her music for the first time be unforgettable for her.
The film plans to interview people who Whitney had close contact with during her lifetime, including Clive Davis, the founder of Arista Records who discovered Whitney, Whitney's mother Cissy Houston, brother Gary Houston, and Whitney's bodyguard Et al
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