After days of speculation, the mystery surrounding the Telluride Film Festival’s secret screening has finally been solved—and the answer is every bit as unexpected as audiences had hoped.

The surprise film was You Can See Everything, a new documentary about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. It is co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, with independent studio A24 preparing to release it in cinemas in October 2026.

The film was unveiled on Sunday night inside Telluride’s Werner Herzog Theatre. Until festival director Julie Huntsinger announced its title, the audience had not been told what it was about—or even who had made it.

Shortly after the screening, A24 released the documentary’s first teaser, officially bringing one of the year’s most closely guarded film projects into public view.

Elizabeth Holmes invites cameras into her private life

You Can See Everything begins 34 days before Holmes is due to report to federal prison.

With her freedom running out, the former Silicon Valley executive invites a sceptical documentary crew to record her daily life. The filmmakers receive unusually intimate access to Holmes, her husband Billy Evans and their two children at the family’s San Diego home.

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Fielder does not remain safely behind the camera. Known for deliberately blurring the boundaries between documentary, performance and psychological experiment in projects such as The Rehearsal, he becomes an active participant in the story.

According to an account of the screening, Fielder temporarily lived with Holmes and her family during the final days before she entered prison. That proximity allows the documentary to study not only the public figure already familiar from headlines but also the carefully controlled private world surrounding her. Vanity Fair reported details from the secret Telluride premiere.

What happened to Theranos?

Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 with the promise of transforming medical testing. The company claimed it could perform numerous laboratory tests using only a small amount of blood collected through a finger prick.

Those claims helped turn Holmes into one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, while Theranos attracted prominent investors and achieved a multibillion-dollar valuation.

The company’s reputation later collapsed after investigations raised serious questions about the reliability and capabilities of its technology.

In January 2022, Holmes was convicted of defrauding Theranos investors. She was subsequently sentenced to 135 months—or 11 years and three months—in federal prison, according to the US Department of Justice.

She began serving her sentence in 2023.

Why make another Elizabeth Holmes documentary?

Holmes’ dramatic rise and collapse have already been explored through podcasts, books, documentaries and scripted television.

Alex Gibney’s 2019 HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley investigated the Theranos scandal, while The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried, turned the story into an award-winning Hulu miniseries.

That familiarity initially created an obvious question at Telluride: what could another film possibly reveal?

The answer appears to lie in the level of access Holmes gave Fielder and Oppenheim. Rather than simply reconstructing the history of Theranos, You Can See Everything examines Holmes as she prepares to surrender her freedom—and apparently attempts to challenge the public narrative surrounding her.

Holmes and Evans reportedly told the filmmakers they wanted unrestricted documentation of their lives. However, the documentary gradually becomes more complicated as questions emerge about image management, control and who might be manipulating whom.

Documentary reportedly takes a shocking turn

Running approximately 174 minutes, the film follows Holmes beyond the period immediately preceding her imprisonment. What begins as an intimate portrait reportedly develops into a far stranger three-year filmmaking journey.

One of the documentary’s biggest surprises involves the appearance of a well-known Hollywood actress. Fielder and Oppenheim asked Telluride audience members not to reveal her identity so future viewers could experience the unexpected moment themselves.

The filmmakers have also acknowledged that the experience did not provide them with simple answers about Holmes.

Fielder reportedly told the audience that he was still attempting to understand what he had experienced during production. That uncertainty could become the documentary’s greatest strength: instead of presenting Holmes as an easily explained subject, the film appears to examine how narratives are created, performed and controlled.

Access reportedly became more difficult

Although the project began with promises of open access, tensions appear to have developed during production.

Fielder said Evans later attempted to exercise greater influence over the filmmaking process, contributing to a breakdown in communication. Holmes and Evans were aware that the documentary existed but had reportedly not watched the completed version before its Telluride screening.

The directors also contacted several former colleagues and people connected to Holmes’ past. Many reportedly declined to participate, leaving Fielder and Oppenheim to navigate a story shaped by both remarkable access and significant absence.

When will ‘You Can See Everything’ be released?

A24 has confirmed that You Can See Everything will be released exclusively in cinemas in October 2026, although an exact theatrical date has not yet been announced.

The brief teaser offers only a carefully measured glimpse of the project, preserving many of the revelations that surprised the Telluride audience.

That secrecy feels entirely appropriate. Holmes built her public identity around confidence, vision and a promise that few outsiders could independently verify. Placing her opposite Fielder—a filmmaker fascinated by performance, control and uncomfortable reality—creates an unusually unpredictable confrontation.

After the secret screening, one thing is clear: You Can See Everything is not being positioned as a conventional retelling of the Theranos scandal. It is attempting to show what happens when one of America’s most scrutinised public figures is given another opportunity to tell her story—and a deeply sceptical filmmaker refuses to simply accept it.