Opps! Still, Jerry Medias story doesnt add up. After all, the Fyre Festival is "luxury." That high price would not only get you performances from Pusha T, Migos, Blink 182, and Major Lazer, it . McFarland to appear in its documentary. Both men say they havent been able to access those funds since. For other uses, see, List of original films distributed by Netflix, "Get ready to binge: Here's what you can expect from Netflix in 2019", "8 Takeaways From Hulu's Surprise-Released Fyre Festival Doc", "The social media company behind Fyre Festival lost more than 200,000 Instagram followers after being accused of plagiarizing its posts", "Netflix's 'Fyre': Inside the Millennial Scam of the Decade", "Both Fyre Fest Documentaries Have Issues (But, Yeah, We're Obsessed Anyway)", "Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. reporter named Gabrielle Bluestone was heading up the sites reporting on Fyre The event was promoted on Instagram by social media influencers including . They trimmed to feature-length and surprise released it four days before Netflix. Rule mentioned that Hulu was in talks to make a documentary. "Fyre doc has flooded my inbox with people looking for (gullible?) 23. Purzycki was by now a Yesterday was a very challenging day for us + our guests. . Thankfully, there is a collection of Slack and iMessages between Fyre and Jerry Media in the lawsuit against Jerry Media. After his sentencing, McFarland, now 27, issued an apology to People. Pollack, Matthew Rowean, and Brett Kincaid of Matte Projects. The press kit for "Fyre" also explains the decision to work alongside Jerry Media and Matte Projects, another advertising company for the festival, was "crucial" as they both had a lot of . By the end of the documentary, Sabatini said he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars after the weekend was over. [1], The film was co-produced by Jerry Media, the social media agency responsible for promoting the Fyre Festival and covering up the fraud, and MATTE Projects, the production company that directed the Fyre Festival's promotional shoot. "But I grew up in New Jersey, he grew up in New Jersey. performing fellatio on a customs official to extract a detained shipment of How did it all go so wrong? They didn't start the Fyreno, they didn't light it, but they didn't try to fight it. ", "Who has the better Fyre Festival documentary, Netflix or Hulu? Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a 2019 documentary produced by Netflix and directed by Chris Smith (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, American Movie), about the infamous 2017 Fyre Festival, a fraudulent music festival that ended in failure, organized by entrepreneur Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule.. microbrew beer taps, the floors of millennials at workand Smith viewed some of As a counterpoint, Furst also noted that Netflix's Fyre was produced in partnership with the social media agency Jerry Media (a.k.a. At the dawn of 2019, our twin film obsession He added he has received "unsolicited nudes" since the documentary premiered. Where the festival failed was on the island.". This was superseded by the distribution agreement Another suit comes from New Jerseys Andrew Petrozziello, saying organizers violated the states consumer fraud act. edged out. which was co-produced by the CEO of Jerry Media and several other FuckJerry After the festival, he continued to work for the company for six months, but then left to travel "to clear his mind" before returning to L.A. to start his own social media marketing agency. Were working to refund your ticket. Their documentary which, based on IMDB ratings, got about six times as many views: (ii) hid disclosure; (iii) had executive producers (EP) complimenting themselves; (iv) brushed over how comments were deleted; (v) didnt interview non-Vice journalists; (vi) missed out on a key interview who foresaw ethical problems; (vii) didnt mention how their EPs are named in at least four lawsuits; (viii) and ultimately let the subjects paint themselves as victims. On Sunday, the convicted swindler announced follow-up plans for the disastrous 2017 music fest, prompting groans across the internet. A source from Vice explained that the Vice/Smith team collectively A ticketed fanwho goes by the alias William N. Finley IV begins chronicling the madness with a series of instantly viralposts showing the poor conditions, soon joined by many other disgruntled travelers. I would NEVER SCAM or FRAUD anyone what sense does that make???" BC 659938; Chelsea Chinery et al. Watch a teaser video below; a proper trailer is expected in the coming days. seem to channel the spirit of the times, bedeviled by grifters and cheats, all Because McFarland and the festival didn't pay their customs bill, all of Sabatini's equipment was seized by the government. But we would like to fully explain what happened. Mick Purzycki, in particular, who gives much of the testimony for Jerry . Fyre) and Jerry Media itself. So a festival was a great way to go and do that and beyond people who are attending.. and ended Ultimately, Chris Smith a hero of the documentary world, use his integrity to sell millennials on a false narrative. of the films backend revenue to pay back ticket-holders, but he failed to show up at the last minute. From there, I got connected with Jerry Media and Matte Projects. It promised artists like Blink-182 and Major Lazer performing in the Bahamas . Finley provides the most colorful account of Fyre Festival's opening-night mania. He also wrote, "I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!". Production: MATTE Projects, Jerry Media, Vice Studios, Library Films By February of 2018, Swaigen Fitzgerald, who launched the Viceland cable channel (he eventually left the company).*. Infamous Fyre Festival fraudster Billy McFarland thinks an hour of his valuable time is worth nearly $2,000. The Fyre Festival, Built on Instagram, Dies by Instagram . to work with us.. Among the missing links: poor transportation options and a lack of potable water and sewage lines. I don't want to be living it. **An earlier version of this article stated that McFarland had reached an agreement with Jerry Media to appear in Fyre in exchange for revenue to pay McFarlands debts. Bringing Down The Band / YouTube. Festival: the $250,000 But as several journalists have observed, none of the tickets Ben Meiselas, the lawyer featured in the Hulu doc, added Jerry Media by name in an amended complaint. Culture. [6] According to Netflix, the documentary was Smith's idea. March 12: Two months out,word begins to leak out about festival headliners, including the addition ofBlink-182. Jerry media is trying to bounce their bad image, Exuma Foundation for the day laborers impacted by Fyre. Watch all you want. thing about twin films is that, through different treatments, the competing either party could walk away at any point and retain the rights to what they While Hulu's seemed to be openly mocking the influencer culture that contributed to the mess happening in the first place, Netflix gave a more behind-the-scenes look into how McFarland was able (and enabled, in some ways) to keep the scheme afloat until it was too late and a cheese sandwich went viral. (Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and more celebrities appeared in itwhich they might be regretting now.). The two movies ended up How could Vice let seasoned festival experts act as if they were hoodwinked? After the Vice office visit, Swaigen collapse that left Fyre Festival employees unpaid. The Fyre Festival account called the confusion "unexpected" on, where . told Swaigen, We have to make a recovery documentary. McFarland was trying The Jerry Media CEO took part on and off screen in the Netflix documentary, appearing on camera to explain his company's part in the festival's promotional strategy on social media. She also recently starred in Deadly Match, a Lifetime movie about a dating site that turns out to be a prostitution hub. The former Jerry Media employee was the only person from the company to participate in Hulu's documentary, much to his former employer's chagrin. But in the case of Netflixs Fyre, the grift may have seeped into the Shutterstock. Working in partnership with Matte, we helped to create the website for Fyre Festival. Now, documents show that the The breakout moment from Netflix's documentary? Hulu has one-upped Netflix, dropping their own competing documentary about the Fyre Festival just four days before Netflix had announced they would release . says, Bluestone and Fitzgerald had stopped talking to him. v. Fyre Media Inc., Billy McFarland, Jeffrey Atkins a/k/a Ja Rule, Matte Projects LLC and Does 1 through 100, Superior Court of California, County . We've all heard about it, from the articles to the documentariesbut most people still don't know the darkest part of the disaster. From Matte Projects/Courtesy of Fyre. Typically, an EP provides funding or something worth money (eg: footage, access) in order to be tied into the financial success of the film. There was an initial agreement that backlash for plagiarizing other creatives content, led by the social media The twin film ", Fyre's creative director became Chrissy Teigen's favorite after she live-tweeted the Hulu doc, and he's spent a lot of time on Twitter explaining how to pronounce his name. The agreement stipulated the revenue would pay back ticket-holders who had been scammed. Billy McFarland, who served four years in prison after being convicted of wire fraud for his role in securing . "You get a couple more followers, people hit you upeveryone comes out of the woodwork," he said on the We're All Psychos podcast. When Netflix announced mid-December a launch the following month, Hulu rushed to be first. Title Design: Shreya Chopra From Matte Projects/Courtesy of Fyre. ), Crawford was one of the festival attendees who appeared in Netflix's doc, he is one of the founders and the CMO of Elevate Venture Group. All Rights Reserved. Fyre Festival et al. (Chris and Mick have not respond a request for comment). Hulu documentary was originally supposed to be a series, but was rushed Defendant Matte Projects, LLC ("Matte") was a business entity incorporated under the laws of the state of New York at all times relevant to this action. These messages reveal credit card issues and requests to purge mentions of the fyrecay.com the Wikileaks of Fyre Festival. After paying over $4,000 to attend the festival, Cressno and his friend were awarded $5 million dollars in damages by a judge in North Carolina in June 2018. To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars and fing like porn stars! the rapper allegedly toasted after the decision was made to plow ahead. MATTE Projects, in addition, was the creative agency behind the marketing and advertising of the Festival. Not y our negative tweets.". The Netflix documentary, directed by Chris Smith, is produced in part by Jerry Media (AKA FuckJerry) and Matte Projects, two companies behind the supermodel-filled promotion of the actual Fyre . As Fyre Festival melted down, McFarland Attendees Matthew Herlihy and Anthony Lauriello each paid $1,027 for their weekend tickets, including airfare from Miami, according to their lawsuit. McFarland began his six-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of defrauding investors out of $26 million in November 2018. Following Fyre Festival, Margolin agreed to pay a . of a handful of men who control the images that appear on your social media and I know I'm Uncle Whackjob," he said. in that documentary: Hes the guy with the glasses and deadpan expression who The 2017 luxury music festival that seemed too good to be true and ultimately became a disaster is the subject of a new Hulu docuseries. [12], This article is about the documentary. [11], On the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Fyre earned four nominations, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera), and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera). FuckJerry has some serious same topic, its a banner day for cultural criticism. How did the Fyre Festival go so wrong? felt particularly wrong to us for him to be benefiting from an interview documentary, FuckJerry was aware of the problems in the festivals production, FuckJerry) and the advertising Matte Projects, two companies . Then His famous friends include Selena Gomez, whom he was romantically linked to pre-Fyre festival, the Hadid sisters and Hailey Baldwin. him screwed out of money, he said, and wondering what to do with his footage. York in October of 2017, where he met with Bluestone, Fitzgerald, and the They started by making a website and launching a viral campaign. . Why? Hulus money (125k or less, rumored to be between 50100k [Hulu spokesperson declined to comment]) in theory would to go his victims. One of the agencies did a great job: the event sold out. insightful. Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. Michael didnt return to filming until after the festival, when Billy called Michael asking him to film a bizarro redemption documentary. Frankly, we were standing on an empty gravel pit and no one had any idea how we were going to build a festival village from scratch. With artists reportedly complaining about not getting paid and time ticking, Gordon said some planners on the ground asked if it was perhaps best to just roll everyones ticket over to 2018 and start planning for next year immediately.. We set up water and waste management, brought an ambulance from New York, and chartered 737 planes to shuttle our guests via 12 flights a day from Miami. [2][3][4][5] Jerry Media approached VICE with the idea of a documentary three months after the events. The spot promisesthe best in food, art, music and adventure amid footage of luxury yachts, jet skis and yet more models cavorting on the boundaries of theimpossible.. who had initially approached Vice with an idea for a documentary about Fyre Festival its acquisition of Fyre on December "People spread rumors about locals wielding machetes, tents and stands being set on fire, and rabid dogs roaming the site (all of which was later revealed to be false)," he wrote. Some of his footage ended up in the Netflix movie because it was owned by his contractor at the time, Matte Projects, whose co-founder Brett Kincaid also co-produced Fyre. McFarland left answering to do related to its involvement in Fyre Festival. contextualizing their stories quite differently. Quick summary of the lawsuits (DOE defendants are yet-to-be named defendents): When asked Whos guilty? Oren, the whistleblower in the Hulu doc says Everyone. King, 57, is still working as an event producer through his company, Inward Point. Matte . In the Netflix doc, Jerry Media CEO said they and Matte Projects didnt have any visibility into what was happening on the production side of the Fyre Festival. actions taken by Jerry Media were done at the direction of the Fyre Festival, The Hulu documentary and court documents, naming Jerry Media and Matte Projects as defendants, show how comments containing certain words were automatically hidden. After early screenings at he tweeted. Bringing innovative stories to life for luxury brands is what we do. "On film, I was laughing when telling the story, but in reality, at Fyre, we were panicked. Music family as the first headliners for @fyrefestival. The post even included a way for her followers to use a special promo code KJONFYRE, to get on the list for exclusiveafter parties. approached Jerry Media for footage in December 2017, which Netflix also And Crawford recently talked about all the attention he's been receiving since the movie's release. The new studios first project was Fyre, which was FuckJerrys first ever film production. The music festival consultant responsible for guest's accommodations/the intended yoga instructor for the Fyre Festival was one of the few who strongly advised McFarland to cancel the festival. The documentary shows a lot of B-roll footage from the days McFarland, Ja Rule, and all the major supermodels spent filming the now infamous promo video for Fyre Festival. tell the real story behind the Fyre Festival debacle of 2017, in which the At this point, Swaigen Fyre Festival con man Billy McFarland is ready to entertain again. accounts end up pointing the viewer toward the truth. (Cressno inadvertently became an influencer after starting an account for his fictional influencer persona.). Edit: Jon Karmen, Daniel Koehler, Camilla Hayman suggesting that it was just as innocent as the scammed ticket-holders. Reports emerge that fest organizers have fired off cease and desist letters to at least one disgruntled festivalgoer, claimingthat their gripes thatcommunications on the island were non-existent and there was nothing but disaster relief tents that were on the verge of blowing over are untrue and could incite violence, rioting, or civil unrest. If the fan in question doesnt take the posts down and someone innocent does get hurt as a result, the attorneys promise, Fyre Festival will hold you accountable and responsible.. What I was laughing about on film was the fact the absurdity of the whole situation in retrospect. Flying in, the water looked beautiful but I was almost immediately warned not to go near it because of a rampant shark problem. After we landed, we drove to the festival site to assess our goods. Trump for punching bag status among late night talk show hosts, thelegal avalanche continues, witha third set of attendees file a class-action suit alleging negligence, fraud and violation of consumer protection law. I was under the radar for like a year." "Fyre Festival levels of hype w/ Fyre Festival levels of execution," someone summed up. A byword for con artists who offer up a vision of sun-kissed perfection, but in reality, deliver chaos and disappointment . There were very confidential messages about a date change from Grant Margolin months before the festival. [1] Vanity Fair describes him as "the poster boy for millennial scamming." CEO of FuckJerry, Mick Purzycki, who was a producer of Fyre, also claimed to have final cut over the documentary while To say executive producers dont get favorable coverage is a blatant lie. ** Vice confirmed the email to Swaigen, but that eventually all production companies ultimately And he was a particular favorite participant of the film's director Chris Smith, who told the Observer, "I think Mark Crawford is incredibly charismatic and funny in his ability to recall and tell the story.". Other names that soon joined the listincluded Disclosure, Migos and Lil Yachty, as well as Matoma, Claptone, Tensnake, Daniel Cowel, Lovecraft,Lee Burridgeand other acts for the Pirates Cove EDM stage. about insidious digital marketing, corporate irresponsibility, and the misdeeds problems far earlier than it has claimed, and therefore needs to be held Hulu is fighting "Fyre" with Fyre. . Are Fyre Festival organizers in over their heads? Netflix's doc introduced viewers to the plight of Rolle, the caterer at the Exuma Point Resort in the Bahamas who lost her entire life savings in order to feed the staff of the festival, and viewers immediately sympathized with her, along with the rest of the locals who were taken advantage of by the Fyre Festival team. wonders why everybody is so obsessed with Great Exuma. Fyre Festival will hold you accountable and responsible. Billy McFarland - Fyre Co-Founder (archive footage) Jason Bell - Former NFL Player (archive footage) Gabrielle Bluestone . Gabrielle Bluestone, Vice News journalist / EP, was the one-stop-shop for all journalist comments. Kincaid still serves as the creative director of Matte Projects, which he co-founded, and the company donated $5,000 to Rolle's GoFundMe. The Faces of the Fyre Festival Documentaries: What Are They Up to Now? Last modified on Thu 19 May 2022 15.22 EDT. "I just don't want to necessarily be known as the Blow Job Kind of the world." They uploaded an additional $900 and $1,000 to their respective festival wristbands, which were supposed to enable a cashless event. Contact 561 Broadway 6th Floor New York, NY 10012 +1 (646) 854 2652 info@matteprojects.com Jo Livingstone is a former staff writer at The New Republic. Though his editing authority was later superseded by the distribution There was not enough space to build all the tents and green rooms they would need. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Netflix), Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. The great
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