via HuluFilm & TVNewsAnother wild documentary on the disastrous Fyre Festival has droppedFyre Fraud is here, featuring the now-convicted founder Billy McFarlandShareLink copied ✔️January 15, 2019Film & TVNewsTextRoisin McVeigh When Fyre Festival was announced in December 2016, it was advertised as a dreamy, boutique festival experience on an island that was bound to be highly Instagrammable. The event, which was to take place over two weekends in the Bahamas, was, of course, a complete shit-show. Two new documentaries, Fyre Fraud on Hulu and Fyre on Netflix, released this month aim to unpack where it all went wrong. Many will remember when the event became the laughing stock of social media: the far-from-luxurious white relief tents that peppered the island, the truly bleak cheese sandwiches that were supposedly “gourmet” and hangry posts from many of the stranded guests left without food and water. It was truly a Lord of the Flies experience for rich people. Both Netflix and Hulu have both been working on films detailing the lead up to the disastrous event. Hulu’s Fyre Fraud, released this morning, has been billed as a “true crime comedy”. In a statement, the directors Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nelson said that the film, which includes an interview with the notorious co-founder Billy McFarland, “offers us a window into the mind of a con artist, the insidious charm of the fraudster and how they can capture our imaginations, our investment and our votes in the age of Trump”. Netflix’s take on the festival, directed by Chris Smith and simply named Fyre, aims to bring a more human side to the story, exposing the many people, from contractors to the local Bahamians, who invested time and money into working on the festival. It also examines how McFarland won over the trust of influencers such as Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski. The rich kids are certainly not the only ones who were duped, as a whole host of insiders come forward with their painful stories. Watch the trailer for Fyre Fraud below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORERed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerVanmoofWhat went down at Dazed and VanMoof’s joyride around BerlinCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsRay Ban MetaIn pictures: Jefferson Hack launches new exhibition with exclusive eventHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industryHappyend: A Japanese teen sci-fi set in a dystopian, AI-driven futureClara Law: An introduction to Hong Kong’s unsung indie visionary