Billy McFarland, the famed fraudster who went to prison for wire fraud over the Fyre Festival fiasco, will be the subject of a brand-new documentary. This time around, it’s not a failed music festival that made good on just about zero promises but rather a…treasure hunt in the Bahamas.
According to Deadline, After the Fyre “will feature…disgraced entrepreneur [Billy McFarland] as he launches his next business venture and attempts to pay back the 26 million dollars he still owes after scandalously defrauding investors, partners and attendees of the promised-but-botched luxurious music event that took place in 2017.”
Billy McFarland, who was released from prison in March, has gone on to apologize for his fraudulent actions, saying, “I need to apologize. That is the first and the last thing that needs to be done…I let people down. I let down employees. I let down their families. I let down investors. I...
According to Deadline, After the Fyre “will feature…disgraced entrepreneur [Billy McFarland] as he launches his next business venture and attempts to pay back the 26 million dollars he still owes after scandalously defrauding investors, partners and attendees of the promised-but-botched luxurious music event that took place in 2017.”
Billy McFarland, who was released from prison in March, has gone on to apologize for his fraudulent actions, saying, “I need to apologize. That is the first and the last thing that needs to be done…I let people down. I let down employees. I let down their families. I let down investors. I...
- 11/7/2022
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Those attending Ja Rule’s now-canceled Fyre Festival were promised “a cultural moment created from a blend of music, art and food.” What they got was decidedly a failure on all fronts—perhaps most notably with the food.
The two-weekend event in the Bahamas touted “a uniquely authentic island cuisine experience,” with “local seafood, Bahamian-style sushi and even a pig roast.” It was also allegedly said to be catered by Stephen Starr, the massively successful restauranteur behind New York City’s Upland, Morimoto, and Le Coucou, to name a few—but both Starr and the catering company he sold in 2015, Starr Events,...
The two-weekend event in the Bahamas touted “a uniquely authentic island cuisine experience,” with “local seafood, Bahamian-style sushi and even a pig roast.” It was also allegedly said to be catered by Stephen Starr, the massively successful restauranteur behind New York City’s Upland, Morimoto, and Le Coucou, to name a few—but both Starr and the catering company he sold in 2015, Starr Events,...
- 4/28/2017
- by Shay Spence
- PEOPLE.com
Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Below is Winter, 1993. In our second issue of Filmmaker, attorney Robert Siegel interviewed Steven Starr, former head of the motion picture department at William Morris who left the agency to produce Tom DeCillo’s Johnny Suede (the first motion picture to star Brad Pitt) and direct his first feature, Joey Breaker. (Subsequently, Starr launched the web video site Revver and produced the documentary Flow.) Peter Broderick interviewed Alex Cox, and I wrote the cover story on Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, interviewing Ferrara, distributor Paul Cohen, and the late, great Zoe Lund, who wrote the screenplay and acted in the film....
- 8/3/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Flow: For Love of Water, a documentary about escalating threats to the world's freshwater supplies, may appear rather prosaic until the enormity of the issue becomes apparent: Worldwide, water sources are consistently endangered by overuse, drought, pollution and privatization. At the same time, more than a billion people globally still lack access to clean water.
Along with this sobering information, filmmaker Irena Salina's docu includes a distinct note of optimism that should help the film flow smoothly through the festival pipeline before eventually settling on DVD.
Salina's globetrotting camera finds local residents and activists protesting water contamination and seeking safer supplies in South Africa, the U.S., Bolivia and India, where Coca Cola has reportedly polluted an entire community's water source.
Worldwide she encounters multinational corporations like Nestle, Vivendi-Universal and Suez that are attempting to lock up water reserves through government-sanctioned privatization. Meanwhile, subsidiaries of these major conglomerates sell water back to us in bottled form worth an estimated $22 billion annually.
Salina also shows how activists and scientists are challenging water profiteering and assisting impoverished communities on the front lines of water conservation conflicts with protecting critical resources. Interviews with community leaders, activists and experts, as well as water company executives, form the spine of the film. Alarming exterior scenes of localities threatened by pollution and drought are combined with footage of clear, free-flowing water as a reminder of the opportunity that still exists to safeguard supplies.
Insistent, sometimes conspicuously one-sided, the film's concerns are difficult to dismiss, considering that a water-starved planet isn't ultimately viable. "Flow's" digital video tech credits are suitably modest although a few scenes with poor audio or video could benefit from trimming.
FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
A Steven Starr Production in association with The Group Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Irena Salina
Producer: Steven Starr
Executive producers: Stephen Nemeth, Caroleen Feeney, Lee Jaffe, Augusta Brown Holland, Brent Meikle, Cornalia Meikle, Hadley Meikle
Directors of photography: Pablo de Selva, Irena Salina
Music: Christophe Julien
Editors: Caitlin Dixon, Madeleine Gavin, Andrew Mondshein
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Flow: For Love of Water, a documentary about escalating threats to the world's freshwater supplies, may appear rather prosaic until the enormity of the issue becomes apparent: Worldwide, water sources are consistently endangered by overuse, drought, pollution and privatization. At the same time, more than a billion people globally still lack access to clean water.
Along with this sobering information, filmmaker Irena Salina's docu includes a distinct note of optimism that should help the film flow smoothly through the festival pipeline before eventually settling on DVD.
Salina's globetrotting camera finds local residents and activists protesting water contamination and seeking safer supplies in South Africa, the U.S., Bolivia and India, where Coca Cola has reportedly polluted an entire community's water source.
Worldwide she encounters multinational corporations like Nestle, Vivendi-Universal and Suez that are attempting to lock up water reserves through government-sanctioned privatization. Meanwhile, subsidiaries of these major conglomerates sell water back to us in bottled form worth an estimated $22 billion annually.
Salina also shows how activists and scientists are challenging water profiteering and assisting impoverished communities on the front lines of water conservation conflicts with protecting critical resources. Interviews with community leaders, activists and experts, as well as water company executives, form the spine of the film. Alarming exterior scenes of localities threatened by pollution and drought are combined with footage of clear, free-flowing water as a reminder of the opportunity that still exists to safeguard supplies.
Insistent, sometimes conspicuously one-sided, the film's concerns are difficult to dismiss, considering that a water-starved planet isn't ultimately viable. "Flow's" digital video tech credits are suitably modest although a few scenes with poor audio or video could benefit from trimming.
FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
A Steven Starr Production in association with The Group Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Irena Salina
Producer: Steven Starr
Executive producers: Stephen Nemeth, Caroleen Feeney, Lee Jaffe, Augusta Brown Holland, Brent Meikle, Cornalia Meikle, Hadley Meikle
Directors of photography: Pablo de Selva, Irena Salina
Music: Christophe Julien
Editors: Caitlin Dixon, Madeleine Gavin, Andrew Mondshein
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
NEW YORK -- Two co-founders of the video sharing site Revver.com are stepping down.
Ian Clarke and Oliver Luckett are leaving the company, but CEO Steven Starr, also a founder, will remain. Three other executives also have joined the company, which employs an ad revenue sharing model with its video partners.
Kevin Wells, who was involved in e-commerce projects at Disney Online in the mid-'90s, will take over as chief operating officer, David Armitage has been named senior vp advertising sales, and Angela Gyetvan will be vp marketing.
"All these individuals have made invaluable contributions toward establishing Revver as the first marketplace for viral videos, and we wish them nothing but the best in their future endeavors," said a Revver spokeswoman.
Ian Clarke and Oliver Luckett are leaving the company, but CEO Steven Starr, also a founder, will remain. Three other executives also have joined the company, which employs an ad revenue sharing model with its video partners.
Kevin Wells, who was involved in e-commerce projects at Disney Online in the mid-'90s, will take over as chief operating officer, David Armitage has been named senior vp advertising sales, and Angela Gyetvan will be vp marketing.
"All these individuals have made invaluable contributions toward establishing Revver as the first marketplace for viral videos, and we wish them nothing but the best in their future endeavors," said a Revver spokeswoman.
- 12/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Online video company Revver has partnered with Verizon Wireless to bring user-generated video content directly to VCast subscribers, the company is set to announce Wednesday.
The agreement, which will be implemented early next month, means that Revver users will be able to generate revenue from their creative content not only through broadband and broadcast but also via mobile distribution.
"Our focus is primarily on the creator -- we pioneered this -- to make sure creators are getting paid when their content is online," Revver founder and CEO Steven Starr said. "In the last number of months looking at the mobile communities, it's been clear to us that VCast and Verizon are really aligned with Revver in terms of how they see the marketplace."
Last year Revver became the first online video service to compensate users for sharing content on the Web by splitting net revenue 50-50 with content creators. The new agreement makes Verizon Wireless Revver's exclusive mobile partner for a year.
The agreement, which will be implemented early next month, means that Revver users will be able to generate revenue from their creative content not only through broadband and broadcast but also via mobile distribution.
"Our focus is primarily on the creator -- we pioneered this -- to make sure creators are getting paid when their content is online," Revver founder and CEO Steven Starr said. "In the last number of months looking at the mobile communities, it's been clear to us that VCast and Verizon are really aligned with Revver in terms of how they see the marketplace."
Last year Revver became the first online video service to compensate users for sharing content on the Web by splitting net revenue 50-50 with content creators. The new agreement makes Verizon Wireless Revver's exclusive mobile partner for a year.
- 11/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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