Directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim revealed the teaser trailer for the documentary You Can See Everything. The film follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes 34 days before she is sent to prison, dating back to 2023, inviting a film crew to document her every move. The trailer shows Fielder having intense eye-to-eye contact with the disgraced biotechnology executive. As the scene goes on, Holmes’ gaze upon Fielder becomes increasingly unsettling, made more so by how she was rocking her baby’s cradle — with her foot.
According to film company A24, You Can See Everything will begin as a character portrait of Holmes’ day-to-day life, but as the days pass, it eventually develops into a “mind-bending” journey into “the abyss.” The film has yet to announce a specific premiere date in October.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
Elizabeth Holmes is a former entrepreneur and a convicted fraudster who founded the defunct blood-testing company Theranos. She was only 19 when she launched her company in 2003. The company marketed groundbreaking technology that could perform hundreds of lab tests using minimal amounts of blood. By the end of 2015, the company had reached a value of $9 billion. Holmes was listed as Forbes’ youngest self-made female billionaire in America in 2014 and 2015.
John Carreyrou, an investigative journalist from The Wall Street Journal, received a tip from a Missouri-based pathologist who questioned Theranos’ technology back in 2015. Holmes was removed from the lab-testing industry for two years, and by 2017, the company had officially closed its laboratories. Then, in 2018, Holmes and the former president of Theranos, Ramesh Balwani, were charged with fraudulent conduct.
After surrendering control of the company in one of biotech’s biggest scandals, Holmes was fined $500,000 and subsequently banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 10 years. In 2022, Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison.
Nathan Fielder is a comedian and documentary filmmaker known for creating absurd social experiments in series like Nathan For You in 2013 and The Rehearsal in 2022. Lance Oppenheim is a documentary filmmaker, and he made his narrative feature debut with Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as the controversial To Catch A Predator host Chris Hansen.
Frequently Asked Questions
The documentary was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.
Elizabeth Holmes is a former entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who founded the defunct blood-testing company Theranos at age 19 in 2003. She was once listed as Forbes’ youngest self-made female billionaire in America.
Theranos was a blood-testing company that marketed technology claiming to perform hundreds of lab tests using minimal amounts of blood. The company’s technology was later revealed to be fraudulent, and it officially closed its last laboratory by 2017.
Elizabeth Holmes was charged with fraudulent conduct in 2018, alongside former Theranos president Ramesh Balwani, and was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and three months in prison.
A24 is known for producing films such as The Witch, Hereditary, The Whale, Backrooms, and many more.
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