Wild-eyed Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes appears in unsettling secret doc: Im not deceiving you

A top-secret documentary about disgraced Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes premiered Sunday at the Telluride Film Festival — featuring the wild-eyed convicted liar unsettlingly telling the crew, “I’m not deceiving you.”The film — titled “You Can See Everything” — was filmed in secret by directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and follows the Silicon Valley scammer around in the weeks before she was sent to a Texas federal prison camp in May 2023.The doc was aired at the Colorado film festival Sunday night, surprising the audience at the Werner Herzog Theater, who didn’t know exactly what they would be watching because the screening had been kept under wraps all week, Vanity Fair reported.Before it started, the audience was required to hand over their cell phones.“Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move,” a synopsis of the almost three-hour doc reads.“What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”A trailer was also released on YouTube to coincide with the film festival premiere.

In it, a wide-eyed Holmes insists in an awkward interaction with Canadian comic Fielder that he can trust her.“I’m not that person.I can promise you that.

I don’t have anything to deceive you on,” she said, while rocking her baby with her foot.“Of course, I’m not deceiving you.I’m engaging with you as a human being.

Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that,” she added.Fielder, who listened intently, nodded and said, “Okay.All right.

Okay.Good chat.”The pair then smiles awkwardly at other during a brief silence.

“You’re being real now?” Fielder asks.“I’m always being real,” Holmes responds, grinning.The doc is co-directed by Fielder and the filmmaker, Lance Oppenheim.Oppenheim is known for the documentaries “Some Kind ...