A secret documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has made a surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, where its 650-seat audience was told almost nothing about the film before the screening.
You Can See Everything, co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, was shown on Sunday night after festivalgoers surrendered their phones. They had been told only that the film ran for almost three hours, had not been screened publicly before and that its principal creators would be present.
The documentary follows Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans, during the 34 days before she reported to federal prison in May 2023. Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence after being convicted of defrauding investors over Theranos’s blood-testing technology.
Fielder is understood to have lived in a guest house at the couple’s home while the film was being made, suggesting unusually close access to the pair during the period covered by the documentary.
The film’s Telluride unveiling has also prompted speculation about the involvement of a leading actress, who is reportedly woven into the documentary’s story. Further details about that role have not been disclosed.
Holmes’s appeals against her conviction and sentence were rejected in February last year. She subsequently petitioned Donald Trump to commute her sentence; the clemency request remains listed as pending.
You Can See Everything is due to be released by A24 in October.
