Documentary explores Elizabeth Holmes beyond the Theranos scandal

Thirty-four days before entering prison, Elizabeth Holmes invited a skeptical film crew to document her every move. That encounter forms the basis of “You Can See Everything,” a new documentary that looks beyond the Theranos scandal and into the convicted founder’s more intimate world.

Holmes became a Silicon Valley star after claiming to have developed technology that could reduce the cost of blood testing. Her rise made her one of the wealthiest young entrepreneurs in the United States, until investigations published by The Wall Street Journal in 2015 questioned the reliability of Theranos’s tests and the technology behind them.

Holmes was ultimately convicted of fraud and entered prison in 2023. The new film does not reconstruct the Theranos scandal. Instead, it follows Holmes through her contact with director Nathan Fielder, beginning one month before her imprisonment.

Directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the film had been kept secret until its presentation Sunday at the Telluride Festival in Colorado. It runs for 172 minutes and will be distributed by A24.

The documentary joins several earlier screen treatments of the case. Hulu released “The Dropout” in 2022, with Amanda Seyfried’s portrayal of Holmes earning her an Emmy. The case was also examined in the 2019 documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.” Fielder is known for exploring the boundary between reality and fiction, while Oppenheim is presenting “Primetime” in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

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Thirty-four days before entering prison, the famous Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document each of her movements. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic convict becomes a journey into the abyss of three years that defies logic.