Elizabeth Holmes' Secret Documentary Revealed After She Invited a Film Crew 34 Days Before Prison

Elizabeth Holmes secretly invited filmmakers into her home just 34 days before reporting to federal prison, resulting in an A24 documentary that remained hidden for more than three years.

You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, was unveiled during a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival on 6 September 2026.

The film follows the disgraced Theranos founder during her final weeks of freedom and continues after her imprisonment, offering unusual access to Holmes, her husband Billy Evans and their family life.

Holmes Invited Film Crew Weeks Before Prison

The project began in spring 2023, shortly before Holmes reported to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas, in May that year.

According to the film's synopsis, Holmes invited a 'sceptical film crew' to document her life 34 days before her surrender.

Fielder, best known for Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, appears on camera rather than remaining behind it. Reports from Telluride indicate that he stayed with Holmes, Evans and their young children while filming the period before her imprisonment.

What initially appeared to be an intimate account of Holmes's final weeks outside prison eventually expanded into a three-year project.

Secret Documentary Continued After Imprisonment

Filming and contact continued after Holmes began serving her sentence, although the filmmakers' access changed substantially. Reports had emerged by 2025 that Fielder had visited Holmes in prison several times, although the reason for those meetings was not publicly confirmed at the time.

The documentary itself remained largely secret until its Telluride premiere, when its title, full directing team and A24 involvement were revealed alongside a teaser.

The 174-minute film is now scheduled for a theatrical release in October.

Early accounts suggest You Can See Everything is not structured as a conventional true-crime documentary. Instead, Fielder directly challenges Holmes as she attempts to explain herself and push back against narratives that have surrounded her since Theranos collapsed.

Why Is Elizabeth Holmes In Prison?

Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 after leaving Stanford University at 19. The company claimed its technology could conduct numerous medical tests using only a small amount of blood from a finger prick.

Theranos eventually reached a valuation of approximately $9 billion (about £6.7 billion), turning Holmes into one of Silicon Valley's most celebrated young entrepreneurs.

Questions about the company's technology intensified following whistleblower allegations and investigative reporting in 2015. Theranos later collapsed and formally dissolved in 2018.

A federal jury convicted Holmes in January 2022 of one count of conspiracy to defraud Theranos investors and three counts of wire fraud against investors. She was acquitted on several other counts involving patients.

Holmes was sentenced in November 2022 to 11 years and three months in federal prison and reported to the Texas facility on 30 May 2023.

A24 Film Offers Rare Access to Theranos Founder

Holmes's rise and fall has already inspired documentaries, books and dramatisations, including The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried.

You Can See Everything, however, differs because Holmes herself granted filmmakers extensive access immediately before imprisonment.

The teaser reportedly captures tense exchanges between Holmes and Fielder, including her insistence that she is being genuine and has nothing to deceive him about.

Early reactions from Telluride described the documentary as difficult to categorise and filled with unexpected turns. Even Fielder has acknowledged struggling to fully make sense of what the filmmakers captured.

After remaining concealed for more than three years, audiences will get their first wider look at Holmes's attempt to tell her story when the documentary reaches cinemas in October.