Fyre (film)

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Movie
German title Fyre
Original title Fyre
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Chris Smith
script Chris Smith
production Danny Gabai , Mick Purzycki , Chris Smith
music Jason Hill
camera Jake Burghart , Cory Fraiman-Lott , Henry Zaballos
cut Jon Karmen , Daniel Koehler

Fyre is an American documentary from the year 2019 , of at Netflix has been released. The film by director and screenwriter Chris Smith reports on the failed Fyre Festival and especially its organizer Billy McFarland.

content

The film traces the preparations for the Fyre Festival, which should take place in 2017, starting with its promotion in 2016. The young entrepreneur Billy McFarland, who had attracted attention with the successful marketing of an exclusive credit card, founded the service Fyre, the celebrities for events mediated. Together with the rapper Ja Rule , McFarland then promoted the idea of ​​a festival to make the service better known. The festival was advertised as particularly exclusive and luxurious with influencers and was supposed to take place on a private island in the Bahamas . The film lets several people involved in the organization and from the Fyre company have their say and tells of a number of problems that arose during the preparations and the unrealizable promises that were made to the festival visitors. People who were responsible for setting up and catering in the Bahamas were also interviewed. Nevertheless, everyone involved had confidence in McFarland that the project would succeed. Finally, an improvised, inadequately equipped festival site on fallow land on Exuma was prepared, which was also made uninhabitable by a storm. The arriving guests could not be adequately taken care of, the journey was not organized and finally chaos broke out on the premises. The festival was canceled and none of those involved paid. The film goes on to tell how McFarland goes into hiding and then uses the data obtained from the betrayed festival goers to sell fake tickets for other high profile events. Eventually, he is sentenced to six years in prison.

Production and publication

The film was directed and based on a script by Chris Smith for Library Films and Vice Studios. Jerry Media, the agency that had also promoted the Fyre Festival, and Matte Projects, who were already involved in filming the festival promotion, were also co-producers. Both companies were able to provide film material from the time of festival preparation and advertising. Smith also acted as a producer alongside Danny Gabai and Mick Purzycki . Jake Burghart , Cory Fraiman-Lott and Henry Zaballos were responsible for the camera work and Jon Karmen and Daniel Koehler did the editing . Jason Hill composed the music .

The film was released via streaming on Netflix on January 18, 2019 . Just a few days earlier, the competition service Hulu also published a documentary about the festival under the title Fyre Fraud , but it deals more with the marketing of the festival and the festival goers and why they paid a lot of money for the festival without knowing what you receive.

reception

Hulu criticized Netflix or the producers of the film for working with the advertising agency Jerry Media. Since this had also advertised the festival and was thus partly responsible for its failure and the fraud, the film would not tell the story of the festival in an unbiased manner and was influenced by the agency. This criticism was also taken up in media reports and expanded to include Matte Projects. It was suspected that the companies had downplayed their responsibility in the documentation and passed it on to others. The advertising agency in particular played a major role in ensuring that so many tickets were sold and that the fraud could work. After the documentary was published, Jerry Media also came under fire from influencers whose pictures they used on Instagram without consent. Many of the postings were then deleted by Jerry Media.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dee Lockett: 8 Takeaways From Hulu's Surprise-Released Fyre Festival Doc. January 15, 2019, accessed August 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Josephine Livingstone: Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix's Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too? In: The New Republic . February 12, 2019, ISSN  0028-6583 (English, newrepublic.com [accessed August 15, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou: How to Prevent Another Fyre Festival. In: Bloomberg. January 29, 2019, accessed August 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jacob Shamsian: The social media company behind Fyre Festival lost more than 200,000 Instagram followers after being accused of plagiarizing its posts. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .