Nathan Fielder's Secret Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Surfaces at Telluride
A years-old rumour turned out to be true. Nathan Fielder, the comedian and filmmaker best known for his awkward-stunt comedy series Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, has indeed been making a documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes — and it premiered on Sunday night at the 2026 Telluride Film Festival.
The film is called You Can See Everything. It is directed by Fielder alongside Lance Oppenheim, the documentarian behind Some Kind of Heaven and Primetime, a Robert Pattinson-starring Chris Hansen film that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. A24 is the distributor, and the film is set to reach theatres sometime in October 2026, according to Variety.
The logline is striking. The film follows Holmes inviting a sceptical film crew to document her every move thirty-four days before she is sent to prison, a process that ultimately spans three years. Holmes was convicted in 2022 on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to the collapse of Theranos, her blood-testing startup once valued at $9 billion. She began serving an eleven-year sentence in a federal prison in Texas in May 2023.
To coincide with the Telluride screening, A24 dropped a teaser trailer. In it, Fielder and Holmes lock eyes. She tells him she has nothing to deceive him on and that she is always being real — a line that lands with a particular weight given her conviction for defrauding investors.
The Telluride screening was staged as one of the festival's signature secret screenings — unannounced titles that drop into the programme under a "TBA" label. The festival's official program listed the Werner Herzog Theatre 6:15pm Sunday slot as a 174-minute TBA screening with a Q&A, described as a "special security screening" where personal devices were bagged and locked via the Yondr system before entry. The festival homepage schedule did not name the film. IndieWire confirmed A24's reveal that the secret title was You Can See Everything.
It had been rumoured for years that Fielder had interviewed Holmes, including visiting her in prison, for a top-secret documentary. The project was never officially acknowledged before its Telluride debut. The pairing of Fielder — whose work deliberately blurs the line between documentary and performance — with a subject whose own public persona was built on a sustained deception gives the film an unusual charge before a frame has been widely seen.
For festival audiences, the appeal is obvious: a filmmaker who has built a career on manufactured discomfort sits across from someone whose real-life deceptions had consequences measured in billions of dollars and years in federal prison. Whether the film draws blood or simply watches will be a matter for critics once it opens in October.
For now, the teaser's exchange — Holmes insisting she is "always being real" to a man whose entire method involves staging reality — is doing the work that a teaser trailer is supposed to do.
