Elizabeth Holmes Documentary 'You Can See Everything' Surprises Telluride with Phone-Locked World Premiere
The biggest lines at this year's Telluride Film Festival formed for a film no one knew was coming. On Sunday night, the festival's secret "TBA" screening turned out to be You Can See Everything, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and distributed by A24, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film had its world premiere at Telluride's Werner Herzog Theatre. The festival's official program had listed a 174-minute slot at 6:15pm on Sunday, described as a "true TBA" — a title announced only during the introduction, not in advance. Attendees were required to check in their phones, smart watches, ear pods, and smart glasses, all locked in pouches via the Yondr system before entry, per the Telluride Film Festival.
The documentary's logline, as released by A24, states that it follows Holmes inviting a skeptical film crew to document her every move in the thirty-four days before she begins her prison sentence. A teaser dropped Sunday night alongside the premiere, in which Holmes insists she is not deceiving anyone and is "always being real."
Holmes is the founder of Theranos, the blood-testing company she claimed could detect a range of diseases from a single small blood sample. In 2015 she was named the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the United States. The technology could not do what she claimed. She was convicted of fraud and sentenced to just over eleven years in prison, where she currently resides, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Fielder is known for a body of work — including Nathan for You and The Rehearsal — that bends documentary and performance until the line between them dissolves. Oppenheim's credits include Somekind of Sunshine and Spermworld, both textured documentary portraits of American subcultures. The pairing of those two sensibilities with a subject whose entire public life has hinged on the question of what is real and what is staged gives the project an unusual charge.
A24 has set You Can See Everything for release in October. The film joins a busy autumn corridor for documentaries heading into awards season, though its exact release date within the month has not yet been announced.
