Nathan Fielder’s Secret Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Finally Has a Release Date and a New Trailer

The Telluride Film Festival has built its reputation on keeping its lineup close to the vest, and this year’s secret screening slot delivered exactly the kind of surprise the festival is known for. Sunday night’s mystery title turned into one of the most talked-about reveals of the fall festival circuit almost instantly.

Rumors had circulated for years that comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder, known for ‘Nathan for You’ and HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal,’ had quietly been visiting convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in prison to film a documentary. Those whispers turned out to be true, and A24 confirmed as much the moment the secret screening began.

The film is titled ‘You Can See Everything,’ co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, and A24 has confirmed it will hit theaters this October alongside the release of a new teaser trailer. The documentary follows Holmes in the 34 days before she reported to federal prison, when she invited a skeptical film crew to document her every move.

According to A24’s official synopsis, what starts as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon eventually becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. That framing suggests the project stretches well beyond its initial premise, following Holmes and the production itself across a much longer timeline than the 34-day setup implies.

The screening itself came with unusually tight security. Attendees had their phones checked in at the door before entering the Herzog Theatre, and A24 had reportedly asked at least one outlet covering the festival to hold the news until the screening actually began. The film’s runtime also lived up to advance rumors, clocking in at over two hours.

Oppenheim brings his own distinct résumé to the collaboration. He previously directed 2020’s ‘Some Kind of Heaven,’ 2024’s ‘Spermworld,’ and the HBO docuseries ‘Ren Faire,’ all of which blended nonfiction subject matter with a heightened, cinematic style. He also recently made the jump to narrative filmmaking with A24’s ‘Primetime,’ starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, which premiered to strong reviews at the Venice Film Festival just days before Telluride.

For Fielder, the documentary marks a return to the kind of blurred-reality territory that’s defined his career, following real subjects into increasingly strange and elaborate situations. Pairing him with Oppenheim, whose prior work leans more traditionally observational but shares that same cinematic ambition, gives ‘You Can See Everything’ a distinctive creative pedigree heading into its theatrical run.

Holmes herself remains a deeply polarizing figure. The Theranos founder was convicted of defrauding investors after raising close to $1 billion in funding for blood-testing technology that reporting later revealed never worked as claimed. She began serving an over 11-year prison sentence in May 2023 and is currently incarcerated at a federal facility.

That backdrop makes the documentary’s access all the more striking. Holmes reportedly invited the crew in herself, despite the team’s skepticism going in, giving Fielder and Oppenheim an unusually close vantage point on someone who has spent years largely out of the public eye since her conviction.

With the Telluride premiere behind it and a theatrical release locked in for October, ‘You Can See Everything’ now heads into the fall festival stretch as one of the season’s most unexpected documentary events. Whether it lands as a character study, a media satire, or something stranger entirely, audiences won’t have to wait much longer to find out.

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