Like most of the filmmakers behind this year’s nominees, Forbes wasn’t offered a ticket to the awards show to see his own video vie for the annual MTV-hosted honors. But, Forbes learned after countless calls and inquiries, he could buy his own tickets to the show for $450 to $800 a piece.
“My heart sank,” Forbes admitted in a video this week for a shot-in-the-dark online campaign he launched to crowdfund his way to the VMAs. “I don’t have that kind of money.”
This year, tickets to the MTV VMAs are not being officially sold to the general public. Tickets for the VMAs are typically offered only to the musical artists who are nominated, as well as the Kims and Kanyes and Nickis and Taylors of the world. If you’re a non-famous director, MTV only extends comp tickets to those who are individually nominated in the Best Director category.
Other directors of nominated videos like Forbes are only given the opportunity to attend if they buy tickets offered at three exorbitantly priced tiers: $450 for mezzanine seats, $650 for loge seats, and $800 per ticket for orchestra seats.
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