Sam Bankman-Fried

With any and all things crypto being pushed by celebrities, influencers, and politicians alike, actor-turned-author and director Ben McKenzie decides to investigate. Leveraging his celebrity status to gain access to eager prospectors, McKenzie finds himself unraveling the loosely regulated world of cryptocurrency. This skeptical but evenhanded take on the present and future of what we consider money gives a firsthand account of the chaotic financial frontier of our time.

At the age of 30, Sam Bankman-Fried ran a $32 billion crypto empire, courted by celebrities, politicians, and titans of Wall Street, and then, in ten days, he lost it all. He was convicted of stealing $8 billion in customer funds — one of the largest financial frauds in American history. For the first time, he tells his story in a series of candid interviews from prison, filmed while he awaited sentencing, facing up to 100 years behind bars. The film also features exclusive interviews with his  inner circle who built FTX with him.

In this true-crime documentary, three guys exploit the freewheeling cryptocurrency market to scam millions from investors and bankroll lavish lifestyles.

Feature-length documentary about the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and the inside story of the collapse of FTX

In a world where fortunes are promised and lost in a blink of an eye FTX came forward as the next big thing in Cryptocurrency. When the company crashed and burned in November 2022 the whole world was left in shock, the question on their tongues being how did this happen?

In the span of about one week, Sam Bankman-Fried went from being a crypto billionaire to bankruptcy. In November 2022, one of the biggest tales of financial fraud was unraveling and it all centered around one man and a web of lies spun over the course of a few years.