What’s up with the surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary that just became the talk of tech and Hollywood?

While many people celebrated Labor Day weekend enjoying the waning days of summer, some attendees at the Telluride Film Festival were among the first to see a surprise new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted fraudster and founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos. Holmes famously claimed to have revolutionized blood testing, raising billions of dollars for Theranos, only for the whole thing to unravel after a series of investigations by regulators and journalists—most notably, due to the reporting of John Carreyrou of the Wall Street Journal. Carreyrou recounted the ordeal in his acclaimed 2018 book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Holmes was eventually found guilty on several counts related to fraud and conspiracy. In 2022, she was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, a sentence that was reduced to nine years and six months earlier this year. Why the documentary is capturing attention The documentary project, released by A24, is called You Can See Everything, and was reportedly filmed in secret over a three-year period by filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It has a run time of nearly three hours, and offers a look at Ho…