FYRE FRAUD
Feature Documentary | Hulu | 2019
Executive Produced by Michael Gasparro, and Written, Directed, and Executive Produced by Julia Willoughby Nason, Fyre Fraud is a Hulu Original documentary that helped define The Cinemart’s investigative and cultural storytelling approach.
The film dissects the now-notorious 2017 Fyre Festival — a luxury music event promoted by Ja Rule, influencers, and supermodels that collapsed into chaos in the Bahamas. Featuring the first exclusive interview with convicted organizer Billy McFarland, Fyre Fraud pulls back the curtain on the machinery of modern grift: influencer marketing, unchecked tech culture, and the monetization of FOMO.
The film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program, and praised for its urgency, access, and perspective — reframing what many saw as a punchline into a case study in systemic failure.
Fyre Fraud premiered to critical acclaim and continues to be recognized as one of the most impactful documentaries examining the intersection of digital culture, accountability, and viral myth-making.
CREDITs
Julia Willoughby Nason: Director, Executive Producer, Writer
Michael Gasparro: Executive Producer
The Cinemart: Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production
AWARDS
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“Fyre Fraud offers whopping perspective in its summation of our online culture, displaying everything at once while showing just how unsustainable so much of it is.”
“An entertaining, compelling, and damning examination of one of the biggest frauds in recent history”
“The Fyre documentary that actually tells us something about the world today”
“Fyre Fraud is the more critical, more investigative of the two documentaries on the Fyre Festival, offering a deeper dive into how the festival went from hashtag sensation to international embarrassment”