A top-secret documentary about disgraced Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes premiered Sunday on the Telluride Movie Pageant — that includes the wild-eyed convicted liar unsettlingly telling the crew, “I’m not deceiving you.”
The movie — titled “You Can See All the things” — was filmed in secret by administrators Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and follows the Silicon Valley scammer round within the weeks earlier than she was despatched to a Texas federal jail camp in Could 2023.
The doc was aired on the Colorado movie pageant Sunday night time, shocking the viewers on the Werner Herzog Theater, who didn’t know precisely what they might be watching as a result of the screening had been saved below wraps all week, Self-importance Honest reported.
Earlier than it began, the viewers was required at hand over their cell telephones.
“Thirty-four days earlier than she’s despatched to jail, infamous Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invitations a skeptical movie crew to doc her each transfer,” a synopsis of the just about three-hour doc reads.
“What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon turns into a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”
A trailer was additionally launched on YouTube to coincide with the movie pageant premiere.
In it, a wide-eyed Holmes insists in an ungainly interplay with Canadian comedian Fielder that he can belief her.
“I’m not that particular person. I can promise you that. I don’t have something to deceive you on,” she stated, whereas rocking her child along with her foot.
“In fact, I’m not deceiving you. I’m participating with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no motive for me to try this,” she added.
Fielder, who listened intently, nodded and stated, “Okay. All proper. Okay. Good chat.”
The pair then smiles awkwardly at different throughout a quick silence.
“You’re being actual now?” Fielder asks.
“I’m all the time being actual,” Holmes responds, grinning.
The doc is co-directed by Fielder and the filmmaker, Lance Oppenheim. Oppenheim is thought for the documentaries “Some Form of Heaven” and “Spermworld.”
The trailer sparked a flurry of reactions on-line, with viewers left each excited and unsettled.
Dozens have been fast to level out on-line that Holmes did not blink throughout the couch alternate.
“No blinking ever is wild,” actor Blake Cooper Griffin, who starred in Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” wrote on Instagram.
“She doesn’t blink,” former MSNBC journalist Katie Phang additionally observed.
“This stage of eye contact would ship me right into a spiral of no return,” one other viewer stated, disturbed by the extreme alternate.
Some likened Holmes’ conduct to that of a robotic, whereas others stated the documentary has the hallmarks of a “horror movie.”
“This s–t is stressing me out so badly already,” one other viewer stated.
One social media commentator even likened Holmes to Pennywise the clown, made well-known by Stephen King’s 1986 novel “It.”
“Is Elizabeth Holmes gonna get nominated for Finest Actress trigger that was extra unsettling than [Robert] Pattinson as Chris Hansen,” one other quipped, referring to the psychological crime thriller “Primetime,” which was additionally directed by Oppenheim.
Many joked concerning the timing of its launch, because it is because of hit theatres in October — proper in time for Halloween.
Holmes, the founding father of the now-defunct blood testing startup, was convicted in 2022 on 4 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy for dishonest buyers. She was ordered to pay $452 million in restitution.
Prosecutors stated Holmes lied to buyers from 2010 to 2015 by promising Theranos’ expertise might run many medical exams on a single drop of blood from a finger prick.
In November 2022, she was sentenced to 11 years and three months behind bars and is housed contained in the Federal Jail Camp in Bryan — the identical lockup which is residence to Jeffrey Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Holmes, nonetheless, is eligible for launch on Dec. 30, 2031 after having a 12 months shaved off her sentence.
Inmates can have time lower from their sentences for good conduct for collaborating in jail packages.
Holmes beforehand advised Folks she earns 31 cents an hour for educating inmates the right way to apply for jobs.
She additionally stated she taught French and helped these searching for work apply for presidency assist.
The convicted fraudster maintains her innocence.
“I refused to plead responsible to crimes I didn’t commit,” she advised Folks in February 2025.
Holmes lobbied President Trump to commute her jail sentence and filed a request sooner or later final 12 months.
The case continues to be pending, in response to Workplace of the Pardon Lawyer data considered by The Publish.
