You Can See Everything: Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, Explained
- It is a 174-minute A24 documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, about Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans.
- 🔴 You cannot watch it yet. It has played two festivals. A24’s limited theatrical release is Friday 16 October 2026.
- The premise: Holmes invited a film crew to live with her for the 34 days before she reported to federal prison. Fielder moved in.
- But it is not a 34-day film. A24 calls it a ’three-year journey’; Film at Lincoln Center says it was ‘created in secret over the past four years’. The two do not match and neither has explained the gap.
- Its Telluride premiere on 6 September was unannounced — the audience did not know what they were about to see and had to hand over their phones.
- Its New York premiere is 30 September at Alice Tully Hall, with both directors present. It is standby-only; the allocated tickets are gone.
- 🔴 The ‘11-year sentence’ in most write-ups is out of date. A federal judge cut it from 135 months to 123 in March 2026, and the Bureau of Prisons’ own locator gives a projected release date of 22 February 2030.
Nathan Fielder moved into Elizabeth Holmes’s house 34 days before she went to federal prison, with a camera. A24 is releasing the result on 16 October.
You cannot watch it yet, and that is most of what people currently want to know.
The basics
| Title | You Can See Everything |
| Directed by | Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim |
| Distributor | A24 |
| Runtime | 174 minutes — 2h 54m |
| World premiere | 6 September 2026, Telluride — unannounced |
| New York premiere | 30 September 2026, Alice Tully Hall |
| In cinemas | Friday 16 October 2026, limited |
| Appearing | Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans, Nathan Fielder, Amanda Seyfried |
Amanda Seyfried is in it, which is the detail that tells you what kind of documentary this is. She played Holmes in The Dropout, the Hulu miniseries — so the film has the actress who dramatised her sharing space with the subject.
How it happened
A24’s own synopsis is the shortest version:
“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. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”
Fielder and Oppenheim approached Holmes after hearing she was looking for someone to document her life. She and Billy Evans invited the crew into their home. Fielder lived with them.
Film at Lincoln Center, which is programming its New York premiere, describes what the film does with that access:
“Holmes and her romantic partner, William ‘Billy’ Evans, profess her innocence on their own, intimate terms. Is this all an elaborate ruse? Or is something even stranger afoot? Fielder and Oppenheim have created a fascinating portrait of a relationship, decimating notions of objectivity in documentary while also interrogating the limits of fiction.”
⚠️ Two primary sources disagree about how long this took. A24 says a “three-year journey”. Film at Lincoln Center says it was “created in secret over the past four years”. Both are official; neither explains the other. We have not seen it resolved anywhere and are not going to pick.
What is not in dispute is that it was made quietly. Nobody knew this film existed until it turned up at a festival.
The Telluride screening nobody knew about
🔴 It premiered as a secret screening on 6 September. The audience did not know which film they were about to see, and were required to hand over their phones on the way in.
That is unusual even by Telluride’s standards, and it worked: the film’s existence was not public before that screening.
Variety’s Owen Gleiberman called it “a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus” — his phrase, and a fair warning that this is not a conventional Theranos documentary.
⚠️ Very few people have reviewed it. Fewer than a dozen critics had filed at the time of writing, all from a festival, all before release. Aggregate scores at that sample size are close to meaningless and this page is not quoting one.
How to actually see it
Three dates exist, and two of them are gone or nearly gone.
| Date | What | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Sep 2026 | Telluride, world premiere | Over |
| 30 Sep 2026 | NYFF, Alice Tully Hall, 8pm | 🔴 Standby only |
| 16 Oct 2026 | A24 limited theatrical | The realistic answer |
The New York screening is part of NYFF64, which runs 25 September to 12 October. Both directors are scheduled to attend. Film at Lincoln Center lists it among its standby-only screenings — the allocated tickets are gone, and standby is the remaining route.
⚠️ One caution on the 16 October date. It is reported consistently by the trades and appears in Film at Lincoln Center’s announcement, but A24’s own page for the film still reads “2026 (TBD)”. That is most likely a page nobody has updated. It is also the kind of thing worth checking before you buy a ticket for a specific night.
No streaming date has been announced. A24 has not said where this goes after cinemas, and anyone telling you otherwise is guessing.
Where Elizabeth Holmes actually is
This is the part most coverage gets wrong, so it is worth doing from the source.
We queried the federal Bureau of Prisons’ public inmate locator directly on 13 September 2026:
| Register number | 24965-111 |
| Facility | FPC Bryan, Texas |
| Status | In custody — no actual release date recorded |
| Projected release | 22 February 2030 |
🔴 That projected date is earlier than almost everything published about it. Secondary coverage puts her release in late 2031 or early 2032. The Bureau of Prisons is the agency that holds her and does the arithmetic, and its projection moves as credits accrue — so treat it as a reading taken on a date, which is how this page presents it.
The sentence itself has changed too. Holmes was sentenced to 135 months. On 26 March 2026, Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose cut that to 123 months under a 2023 sentencing-guideline amendment for first-time offenders, the court finding “no evidence of substantial financial hardship” among the investor-victims — despite restitution of $452,047,268 ordered against Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani.
⚠️ So the “11-year sentence” you will read everywhere is the old number. 135 months is 11 years 3 months; 123 months is 10 years 3 months. Film at Lincoln Center’s own programme note still uses the superseded figure, which is how sticky these things are.
She reported to prison on 30 May 2023 — three years and three months ago. The 34 days the film opens with are therefore not recent footage, which is the single most useful thing to hold on to when the trailer makes it look like a film about now.
What we do not know
- What is actually in it. We have not seen it, and this page describes no scenes and no ending.
- Why three years or four. The two official descriptions disagree and neither elaborates.
- Where it streams afterwards. Unannounced.
- Whether 16 October holds. Reported, and not yet reflected on A24’s own page.
The bottom line
It is real, it is nearly three hours long, and the earliest most people can see it is 16 October.
The premise — a convicted fraudster hands a camera to the man who made The Rehearsal, then keeps filming for years — is strange enough that the reviews out of Telluride mostly gave up trying to categorise it. What the film is for is a question worth holding until you have watched it.
And if you are reading a piece that says Holmes is serving eleven years and gets out in 2032, it was written from older coverage. The court changed the first number in March, and the Bureau of Prisons publishes the second one itself.
Release and festival details are from A24’s own film page and Film at Lincoln Center’s NYFF64 programme. Custody details were read from the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator on 13 September 2026 and carry that date. The sentence reduction is from reporting of the 26 March 2026 ruling. We have not seen the film. No affiliate links, and no payment was received for any link on this page.