Status Coup's "Flint Fatigue" Wins TWO Film Festival Awards!

The World Film Festival awards Flint Fatigue as best environmental film and best whistleblower/awareness film.

Hey folks, it’s Jordan.

While I was on a mini-vacation last week, I was excited to learn Status Coup won TWO film festival awards for our critically important “Flint Fatigue” documentary that we released in April. The film was directed and produced by Tommie (Ty) Tyhefe Bayliss, with cinemotography done by Status Coup’s Jon Farina, and reporting by yours truly. In case you haven’t seen the film, it reveals what the mainstream media has covered up: Flint is STILL a massive disaster ten year after the catastrophic Flint River switch—with cancer rates surging and water that remains toxic (and a massive government coverup still allowing guilty politicians to remain free).

As part of the World Film Festival’s monthly competitions of hundreds of international films, our director Tommie Tyhefe Bayliss we won:

• Best Environmental Film

• Best Whistleblower/Awareness Film

Next Steps: World Film Festival has monthly and annual competitions. Now that we have won two categories in World Film Festival’s monthly competition, “Flint Fatigue” now enters the festival’s annual competition for a chance to become a grand winner and be screened at World Film Festival’s Award ceremony in Cannes France next year! If that happens, who knows? Film festivals are known to be packed with bigwigs at Netflix, Hulu, and many other streamers searching for the next big documentary for their platform.

Given how thankless this kind of sustained, years-long on-the-ground and investigative reporting—on stories like the Flint water crisis and cover up—can be, I’m incredibly proud that we have been recognized for this incredible film (that our producer and director Ty incredibly turned around in about a month).

We made the film FREE for people in Flint, America, and around the world to watch because we think it is important that as many people as possible be able to see and learn the truth: that an American city was poisoned and, instead of the government really fixing the disaster, our politicians on both sides of the ideological aisle have simple swept it under the rug and left residents to slowly die.

This accomplishment was only made possible thanks to YOUR SUPPORT! This documentary was a very costly undertaking—not including my over 20 reporting trips since 2016 (the majority with Status Coup and funded by its paying members). Between travel to conduct interviews, to paying Ty to produce and direct the film, to costs to submit the film to various film festivals, creating the documentary cost us well over $6,000. If you value this kind of important on-the-ground and investigative reporting—and want us to report and produce MORE documentaries, please SUPPORT us so we can recoup the costs for this AWARD-WINNING documentary!

As I always say, remember: most people are NOT lacking compassion—most people have no fu*king idea what the hell is going on all around them.

Jordan