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Fyre (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened' is a 2019 American documentary film about Billy McFarland and the failed Fyre Festival of 2017. It was directed by Chris Smith, and produced by Danny Gabai and Mick Purzycki and was released on Netflix on January 18, 2019.
Production
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. Jerry Media approached VICE with the idea of a documentary three months after the events. According to Netflix, the documentary was Smith's idea.
Reception
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds approval rating with an average rating of , based on reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "'Fyre' smolders with agonizing tension when a party in paradise goes awry, but this slickly assembled documentary reserves its greatest horror for damning observations about the dangers of wealth." Metacritic, which uses a normalized average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
In reviewing 'Fyre' and 'Fyre Fraud', a similar documentary that premiered on Hulu, 'The A.V. Club' stated that "'Fyre' is the stronger, more worthwhile documentary, but its counterpart is a helpful reminder that, like so many stories, one account can't contain the whole truth."
In April 2019, Netflix reported that 20 million households had watched the film during its first month of release.
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).[https://ew.com/emmys/2019/07/16/netflix-fyre-festival-documentary-emmy-nomination/ Netflix's Fyre Festival doc beats out Hulu's version for best documentary Emmy nomination]
See also
*List of original films distributed by Netflix
References
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