A24’s You Can See Everything turns Elizabeth Holmes’ final days before prison into a documentary experiment

A24’s new documentary You Can See Everything has turned Elizabeth Holmes’ final weeks before prison into one of the most closely watched film stories of September 2026.

The film is directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, and follows Holmes 34 days before she was due to begin her federal prison sentence. According to A24’s synopsis, what starts as a documentary portrait expands into a three-year project. ^[1]

A secret project revealed

You Can See Everything was kept largely out of public view before its surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month. The project became public only after the festival screening, allowing early viewers and critics to discuss a film that A24 had not previously promoted in the usual way. ^[2]

That secrecy has shaped the film’s reception. Reviews and reports describe it less as a conventional business documentary than as an unsettling, highly personal encounter between Fielder, Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans. The Los Angeles Times reported that Fielder moves in with Holmes and Evans as the film follows the period before Holmes reports to prison. ^[2]

A24 released the full trailer on September 23, 2026. The footage presents Holmes and Fielder in close, sometimes uncomfortable conversations, while preserving the deliberately strange tone that has become associated with Fielder’s work. The trailer has prompted comparisons to psychological drama and horror, although the project is being marketed as a documentary. ^[2]

Why Elizabeth Holmes remains a compelling subject

Holmes became internationally known as the founder and chief executive of Theranos, the Silicon Valley company that claimed it could perform many blood tests using a small finger-prick sample. Federal prosecutors later said Holmes knew the company’s technology was not delivering the capabilities she advertised to investors. ^[4]

A federal jury convicted Holmes in January 2022 of one count of conspiracy to defraud investors and three counts of wire fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice said the convictions concerned a scheme involving more than $140 million in investor wire transfers, while Holmes was acquitted on several patient-related counts and jurors did not reach unanimous verdicts on others. ^[3]

Holmes was sentenced in November 2022 to 135 months, or 11 years and three months, in federal prison. She was ordered to surrender on April 27, 2023. Those dates provide the legal and biographical context for the film’s central premise: a camera crew gaining access shortly before the sentence began. ^[4]

Fielder’s unusual documentary approach

Fielder is best known for comedy projects that blur the boundary between performance, reality and social experiment, including Nathan for You and The Rehearsal. Oppenheim, meanwhile, has built a reputation for intimate nonfiction films focused on outsiders and unusual subcultures. Their collaboration places Holmes’ public scandal inside a filmmaking style that is intentionally difficult to classify. ^[2][5]

The film’s stated premise also raises questions about access and control. Holmes is not merely the subject of archival interviews: A24 says she invited the crew to document her life, while the filmmakers followed the story over several years. That creates a tension at the center of the project—whether the camera is exposing Holmes, enabling her, or capturing a complicated mixture of both. ^[1]

Early critical responses have been strongly positive. RogerEbert.com described the film as a distinctive work in nonfiction cinema, while Variety characterized it as an unusually hybrid experience combining reality television, intimate observation and psychological drama. These are critical responses rather than evidence of broad audience performance, since the film has not yet received a general theatrical release. ^[5][6]

What audiences should know about the release

A24 currently lists You Can See Everything for theatrical release on October 16, 2026. For Papua New Guinea audiences, that is the clearest confirmed date available from the distributor, but it is not confirmation of a local cinema booking or streaming launch. A24’s public listing does not provide a Papua New Guinea release date. ^[1]

The film’s long runtime is another notable detail: public listings place it at approximately 174 minutes. That, combined with its unusual subject and secretive rollout, positions You Can See Everything as a festival-driven release rather than a conventional celebrity documentary. ^[5]

The film is also arriving after Holmes’ story has already been dramatized and documented several times, including through the television series The Dropout and earlier nonfiction coverage of Theranos. The new project’s apparent distinction is not simply that it revisits the scandal, but that it turns access to Holmes herself into the film’s central experiment. ^[4][5]

For viewers encountering the trailer from Papua New Guinea or elsewhere, the key point is that You Can See Everything is not being presented as a new account of the Theranos investigation alone. It is an examination of performance, reputation and observation—made with direct access to a convicted former technology executive at the moment her public identity was collapsing into a prison sentence.