GoKawiilNew documentary revisits Elizabeth Holmes with intimate home footage
Filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent time documenting Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans at home with their children, beginning around a month before she started serving her prison sentence in May 2023. The resulting film reportedly features extensive close-up footage of Holmes interacting with Fielder and her family, revisiting the Theranos founder's story after her 2022 fraud conviction.
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The project suggests continued public fascination with Holmes's fall from a $9 billion valuation to a fraud conviction, and raises questions about how documentary filmmaking can shape or complicate public understanding of disgraced figures. The close, personal access granted to filmmakers could offer new insight into Holmes's private life, though it may also invite scrutiny over how sympathetically or critically she is portrayed.
- Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to over 11 years in prison in 2022 and began serving her sentence in May 2023.
- Filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documented Holmes and partner Billy Evans at home shortly before her incarceration.
- The resulting film reportedly uses intimate close-up footage, with Fielder himself appearing as a central character.
Source: technologyreview.com — Jessica Hamzelou, 2026-10-23
Published there as: “In the biotech world, you can’t see everything”
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