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BBFC RatingDocs Ireland: The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley

CertificateNot Rated
Year2019
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Alex Gibney
LanguageEnglish
CountryUSA
Running Time2HR
Extra InfoRecommended Age: 15
SeasonDocs Ireland 2023

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, HBO's Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.

The prolific Gibney's latest film takes dead aim at some of the core elements of the US state, Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship. In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionise healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as "the next Steve Jobs", the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was cited as a "massive fraud" by the SEC, and its value was less than zero.

Drawing on extraordinary access to never-before-seen footage and testimony from key insiders and with all the drama of a real-life heist film, the documentary will examine how this could have happened and who is responsible, while exploring the psychology of deception.


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