Nathan Fielder's Secret Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Is Real — Here's What You Can See Everything Actually Is

Nathan Fielder really was making a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. A24 has revealed You Can See Everything, co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, as the secret film behind Telluride’s surprise screening slot on September 6. It’s a three-year project that began, according to A24’s own synopsis, 34 days before Holmes reported to federal prison. A24 has confirmed a theatrical release for October 2026, without yet specifying an exact date.

The Rumor Is Now Confirmed

This isn’t the first anyone’s heard of it. In March 2025, The InSneider reported that Fielder had made multiple visits to Holmes at FPC Bryan, the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s held, and that he appeared to be working on something documentary-shaped and deliberately kept quiet. That report never named a title or a co-director. Eighteen months later, A24’s reveal fills in the rest: the visits were real, the project has a name, and Lance Oppenheim was involved alongside Fielder the whole time.

What A24 Actually Confirms

A24’s official synopsis is specific about when this started: “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.” Holmes reported to prison in May 2023, which places the start of filming in the weeks immediately before that.

The “three-year journey” framing is worth reading carefully. It describes the span the story covers, not a claim that Fielder and Oppenheim had constant, unrestricted access to Holmes for three straight years — A24 hasn’t said that, and nothing in the synopsis or teaser supports assuming it. How much of the finished film takes place inside prison, versus before or after, hasn’t been detailed publicly.

What the Teaser Shows

The teaser is brief and shows Fielder pressing Holmes on whether she’s being “real” with him while she holds her child. Holmes responds directly: “I don’t have anything to deceive you on,” and later, “I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you?” That’s the extent of what’s been shown publicly. The exchange doesn’t resolve anything — it’s presented without a clear authorial verdict on whether to believe her, which tracks with Fielder’s history of building tension out of unresolved sincerity rather than telling audiences what to think.

Why Fielder and Oppenheim Together Is the Interesting Part

Fielder’s prior work — Nathan for You, The Rehearsal, HBO’s The Curse — consistently blurs the line between documentary observation and constructed scenario, often putting his subjects in situations designed to reveal something about performance and authenticity itself. Oppenheim works in a different but related register: Some Kind of Heaven, Spermworld and HBO’s Ren Faire are all observational documentaries built around people who’ve constructed unusual private worlds for themselves — he’s also since moved into narrative filmmaking with A24’s Primetime, his upcoming feature debut starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen. Pairing Fielder and Oppenheim suggests You Can See Everything isn’t aiming to be a conventional Theranos retrospective — though what that actually means for the finished film isn’t something either director has laid out yet.

How This Differs From Earlier Holmes Projects

The distinguishing feature isn’t that this is the first documentary to feature Holmes at all — it’s the direct, sustained access beginning right before she went to prison, which neither Gibney’s film nor the Hulu series had.

Holmes’ Legal Status, Precisely

Holmes was convicted in January 2022 on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, all tied to defrauding Theranos investors. She was acquitted on separate counts connected to patients who received inaccurate test results, and jurors couldn’t reach a verdict on several other investor-related counts. She was sentenced to just over 11 years and reported to prison in May 2023; a 2026 sentencing-guideline revision has since reduced that term by about a year.

What’s Still Unknown

A24 hasn’t released a runtime, an exact October date, or details on how much of the film covers Holmes’ life after prison versus the run-up to it. A 174-minute cut reportedly screened at Telluride, per unofficial festival reporting, but A24 itself hasn’t confirmed a final runtime. Until A24 says more, treat the October window as the only confirmed release detail.