Nathan Fielder’s A24 doc ‘A Secret’ spotlights Elizabeth Holmes—here’s who she is

Phones were sealed in bags and the title wasn’t announced until the lights went down: that’s how the Telluride Film Festival unveiled You Can See Everything, a new Elizabeth Holmes documentary from Nathan Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim. The A24 film screened as a surprise event and will head to theaters in October, with festivalgoers sworn to keep what they saw to themselves.

The filmmakers’ official logline keeps it simple — and tense — describing a camera trained on Holmes in the final stretch before prison: “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.” Rumors had swirled ahead of Telluride that Fielder visited Holmes behind bars; what’s actually in the movie is being kept under wraps by design.

Holmes, in brief

• Stanford dropout at 19, Holmes founded Theranos and claimed its Edison device could detect a range of conditions — even cancer — from just a few drops of blood. The company raised about $724 million and hit an estimated $9–10 billion valuation around 2013–14.
• Investigations later found Theranos’ tests were inaccurate and that the company relied on third‑party lab equipment — details investors hadn’t been told.
• Holmes was federally charged on June 14, 2018. In January 2022, a jury convicted her on four counts — three of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud — tied to defrauding investors. She was acquitted on charges related to patients.
• In November 2022, a judge sentenced Holmes to 11 years and 3 months in prison, plus three years of supervised release. She reported to federal custody in 2023.

With You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have delivered one of the most transfixing and jaw-dropping documentaries of ALL TIME. I implore you to know as little as possible about this film before seeing it.

Fielder — working here with Oppenheim and distributor A24 — kept the rollout as controlled as the subject herself once tried to be. Beyond Telluride’s “no phones” screening, the film remains under tight wraps until its theatrical release in October.