Nathan Fielder Premieres Secret New Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
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Nathan Fielder has unveiled his latest project, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes titled You Can See Everything, which A24 gave a near-secret premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday, accompanied by a newly released teaser trailer and poster. Co-directed with Lance Oppenheim, who is also behind A24's forthcoming Chris Hansen-inspired thriller Primetime, the film marks Fielder's first project since the second series of HBO's The Rehearsal. It is set for a wide cinema release in October.
The documentary follows Holmes over the 34 days before she began her prison sentence, after she invited a sceptical film crew to record her every move; its synopsis describes an "intimate portrait" that develops into "a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss." Holmes, who founded the health technology firm Theranos, was convicted of defrauding investors who had contributed nearly $1 billion, and in 2022 was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison.
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In short
- Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary premiered secretly at Telluride
- Film co-directed with Lance Oppenheim, out wide in October
- Tracks Holmes's final 34 days before her prison sentence began
How this story developed
- 1 month ago Nathan Fielder has unveiled the first footage of his new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See Everything, which A24 gave a near-secret premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday alongside a newly released teaser trailer and poster.
- 1 month ago Nathan Fielder has given the first public look at his new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, after A24 gave it a near-unannounced premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday.
- 1 month ago Nathan Fielder has unveiled his latest project, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes titled You Can See Everything, which A24 gave a near-secret premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday, accompanied by a newly released teaser trailer and poster.
- 1 month ago Nathan Fielder has given the first public look at his new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, after A24 gave the film, You Can See Everything, a near-unannounced premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday.
- 2 months ago Nathan Fielder has confirmed You Can See Everything, his previously secret documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, will get a wide cinema release in October, after A24 gave the film a surprise, near-unannounced premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday alongside a new teaser trailer and poster.
- 2 months ago Nathan Fielder has released a teaser trailer and poster for You Can See Everything, his previously secret documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, after A24 gave the film a surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday with almost no advance notice.
- Variety ‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Is a Shameless, Fascinating, Reality-TV-Eats-Its-Tale Look at Entitled Duplicity
- Deadline ‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Shocking Elizabeth Holmes Documentary With Nathan Fielder Is Like No Other You Have Ever Seen – Telluride Film Festival
- Daily Mail Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes appears in trailer for 'secret' new documentary
- The Hollywood Reporter Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’: First Reactions
- IGN The Teaser for A24's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary You Can See Everything Is as Terrifying as It Is Captivating
- The Hollywood Reporter ‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Elizabeth Holmes Doc From Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Is Fascinatingly Slippery, Dizzyingly Clever
- The Hollywood Reporter Telluride Awards Analysis: Nathan Fielder’s Off-the-Wall Elizabeth Holmes Doc Could Click with Academy — and Land Picture and Acting Noms
- Consequence Nathan Fielder Premieres Secret New Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
Full account
Nathan Fielder has quietly unveiled his latest project, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, giving audiences almost no warning before A24 screened the film at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday. Titled You Can See Everything, the film was shown during the festival's traditional "Sunday TBA" slot, a secret screening whose contents are withheld until the last moment. Fielder co-directed the documentary with Lance Oppenheim, who is also behind Primetime, A24's forthcoming thriller inspired by Dateline's Chris Hansen. A teaser trailer and poster went online alongside the screening, ending years of speculation about whether Fielder had actually secured access to Holmes.
According to the official synopsis, the documentary begins 34 days before Holmes is sent to prison, as the once-celebrated Silicon Valley entrepreneur invites a wary film crew to observe her closely; what starts as an intimate character study is said to evolve into what the synopsis calls a "mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss." Holmes, 42, founded the blood-testing firm Theranos and was convicted in 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors after raising close to a billion dollars on the strength of technology that reportedly could not deliver on its promises. Investigative reporting by The Wall Street Journal was instrumental in exposing that the company's claims of running extensive diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick blood sample were false. She was sentenced to more than eleven years in federal prison.
The production was kept unusually tightly guarded: attendees at the Telluride screening, held at the Herzog Theatre, reportedly had their phones confiscated beforehand so that no details could leak. The trailer that has since emerged shows a notably tense exchange between Fielder and Holmes, in which the pair hold eye contact for close to a minute while discussing whether she is being sincere. Holmes insists she has "no reason" to deceive him, telling him she is "always being real," a line she later echoed herself when reposting the trailer on social media.
The film's emergence coincides with a marked shift in Holmes's public profile: after years of silence on social media, she resumed posting in August 2025 with content supportive of Donald Trump and the Make America Healthy Again movement, a striking contrast to her past public associations, which included championing prominent women such as Rosa Parks and Marie Curie, and hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at Theranos's headquarters in 2016. You Can See Everything is set for a wide theatrical release in October and represents Fielder's first major project since the second season of HBO's The Rehearsal.
Where outlets differ
From the full account, which is AI-written from the sources:
Source 1 concentrates on industry and production details — confirming Oppenheim's parallel project Primetime, the October wide-release date, and framing the film as Fielder's first work since The Rehearsal season two — none of which appear in Source 2.
Source 2 goes into much greater depth on the screening's secrecy (phones confiscated at the Herzog Theatre) and quotes directly from the trailer's dialogue between Fielder and Holmes, material entirely absent from Source 1's more concise industry-focused summary.
Only Source 2 covers Holmes's recent political re-emergence on social media, contrasting her 2025 pro-Trump/MAHA posts with her earlier progressive associations and 2016 Clinton fundraiser — a dimension Source 1 does not mention at all.
Source 1 explicitly credits the plot synopsis as an official A24 logline, whereas Source 2 attributes similar plot details more loosely to "the film's logline" without directly quoting official text.
Steelman: both sides, in good faith
The strongest fair case each way — we don't pick a winner.
The case for
Documentary filmmaking at its best illuminates human complexity and the mechanisms of deception, serving both artistic and educational purposes. By capturing Holmes' perspective during such vulnerability, the film may offer insights into how ambitious individuals rationalise fraud—understanding valuable for fraud prevention, accountability, and character study alike.
The case against
Giving substantial artistic prominence and intimate access to a convicted fraudster raises serious ethical concerns about platforming her narrative whilst victims who lost millions remain harmed. Such sympathetic documentary treatment risks inadvertently glorifying crime and prioritising the filmmakers' artistic ambitions over the dignity of those defrauded.
Explained simply
Nathan Fielder is a Canadian comedian and filmmaker known for deadpan, unconventional documentary-style projects such as "Nathan For You" and HBO's "The Rehearsal." His new film, made with co-director Lance Oppenheim, focuses on Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the health technology company Theranos, who claimed her firm's technology could run extensive medical tests from just a few drops of blood.
Theranos raised close to a billion dollars from investors before it emerged that the technology did not work as claimed. Holmes was convicted of fraud in 2022 and sentenced to more than 11 years in prison; the new documentary reportedly focuses on the weeks before she began serving that sentence.
The film is notable partly because of Fielder's reputation for blurring the line between documentary and staged performance, and partly because of how it reached audiences: it was kept secret until a surprise screening, with no prior announcement that it existed.
Coverage · 8 sources
- ConsequenceNathan Fielder Premieres Secret New Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
- Variety‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Is a Shameless, Fascinating, Reality-TV-Eats-Its-Tale Look at Entitled Duplicity
- Deadline‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Shocking Elizabeth Holmes Documentary With Nathan Fielder Is Like No Other You Have Ever Seen – Telluride Film Festival
- Daily MailRightTheranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes appears in trailer for 'secret' new documentary
- The Hollywood ReporterNathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’: First Reactions
- IGNThe Teaser for A24's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary You Can See Everything Is as Terrifying as It Is Captivating
- The Hollywood Reporter‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Elizabeth Holmes Doc From Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Is Fascinatingly Slippery, Dizzyingly Clever
- The Hollywood ReporterTelluride Awards Analysis: Nathan Fielder’s Off-the-Wall Elizabeth Holmes Doc Could Click with Academy — and Land Picture and Acting Noms