''Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened'' is a 2019 American

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about Billy McFarland and the failed

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of 2017. It was directed by Chris Smith, and produced by Danny Gabai and Mick Purzycki and was released on

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on January 18, 2019.

Production

The film was co-produced by

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, 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

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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

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, 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."

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, 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, ''

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'' 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

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, ''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).

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* * {{Chris Smith 2019 documentary films 2019 films American documentary films Documentary films about music festivals Films directed by Chris Smith Netflix original documentary films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films

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