Nathan Fielder Reveals His Secret Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

Nathan Fielder’s long-rumored Elizabeth Holmes documentary is no longer a secret. You Can See Everything, directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, made its world premiere as the surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival on September 6.

A24 unveiled the project and released its first teaser as the screening was announced. The studio plans to bring the film to theaters in October, although the initial announcement did not provide a specific release date.

A three-year project begins before prison

The documentary starts 34 days before Holmes entered prison, according to the film’s official synopsis. She invited a skeptical crew to record her life, beginning what the filmmakers describe as a three-year journey rather than a conventional interview assembled after the fact.

Holmes founded the blood-testing company Theranos and was convicted of defrauding investors. She entered federal prison in May 2023. The new film returns to a story already explored through news investigations, podcasts, scripted drama and Alex Gibney’s 2019 documentary, but its access and creative team point toward a different approach.

The teaser centers on an uneasy exchange between Holmes and Fielder about whether she is presenting herself honestly. It offers little conventional explanation and instead leans into discomfort, observation and uncertainty, elements closely associated with Fielder’s work.

Fielder and Oppenheim bring contrasting styles

Fielder built his reputation through Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, projects that use elaborate situations to test how people behave when performance and reality become difficult to separate. Oppenheim’s documentary credits include Some Kind of Heaven, Spermworld and the series Ren Faire, all known for a more cinematic nonfiction style.

The pairing makes the film notable beyond its subject. Rather than simply retelling the rise and collapse of Theranos, You Can See Everything appears positioned to examine access itself: what a subject chooses to show, what a camera changes and how a filmmaker tests the version of reality being offered.

Telluride attendees were asked to check in their phones, preserving the surprise around the premiere. With a theatrical release now set for October, the next public test will be whether the finished film can turn its unusual access into something more revealing than the many Holmes stories that came before it.