Hulu appears poised to win the Fyre Festival documentary race
Looks like Hulu is going to beat Netflix to market with their Fyre Festival documentary.
Two documentaries on a festival that didn't happen. I was not one-documentary interested, but Mark is making popcorn.
Fyre Fraud, a documentary chronicling the lead-up and aftermath of 2017's disastrous Fyre Festival, is airing on Hulu.
Hulu dropped the documentary, produced and distributed by The Cinemart, Hulu, Billboard and Mic, Monday morning, with no advance notice. Netflix's competing documentary, Fyre, comes out Jan. 18.
The 96-minute Hulu doc features an exclusive, extensive post-festival interview with 25-year-old entrepreneur and Fyre Festival mastermind Billy McFarland, who is serving a six-year prison term after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges. By turns repentant and defensive, he seldom takes direct responsibility for allegedly defrauding investors out of more than $26 million, nor does he admit wrongdoing.