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What the Netflix documentary leaves out, significantly, is the involvement of the "fuckjerry" advertising/PR agency people in both promoting the festival and then later contributing to the documentary itself.

google "fuckjerry fyre festival"

https://decider.com/2019/01/15/fyre-festival-fuck-jerry/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2019/10/24/...

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I remember this being a controversy when the documentaries came out. I ended up watching the Hulu one when it came out, and was underwhelmed having already seen the Netflix one (which was quite well done). I suspect that this "controversy" was simply an attempt to get publicity for the Hulu doc (it succeeded on me, at least).

It's not surprising at all that a PR/advertising agency would have a lot of footage from the event they were attempting to promote.

It's been a while, but I thought the Hulu documentary included a decent amount about fuckjerry. Might be worth comparing.

I'm pretty sure the Hulu one was made by fuckjerry. That's why they were a prominent interviewee during it and also profiting again.

I only saw the Hulu one, and I didn't remember it being very kind to fuckjerry. According to Wikipedia, Jerry Productions (aka fuckjerry) was the Netflix one. Kinda glad I didn't see it now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_(film)

Oh thanks. Honestly I've always confused the two so thanks for clarifying which one was made by them. I've only seen that one to be honest.

I also know one of the two also did a paid interview with Billy McFaland so it was another instance of him profiting off this. The other declining to have him due to principle. I again forget which.

Agreed, I was disappointed that I watched the one supporting that media company.

I'm pretty sure I saw evidence or at least rumor that fuckjerry knew it was going to be a colossal fuck up and continued along with it just for money and the making of movie.

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