Fielder's Holmes Documentary Premieres Unannounced at Telluride — SkimNews
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- "You Can See Everything" — a 174-minute documentary co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and supported by A24 — premiered as an unannounced mystery screening at the Telluride Film Festival.
- The film documents Elizabeth Holmes during the 35 days before her 2023 prison sentence began, at her Del Mar beachside home with partner Billy Evans and their two children.
- Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors through Theranos, once valued at $9 billion for blood-testing technology that the documentary shows her still claiming "worked" — only the chemistry, she insists, remained unfinished.
- Fielder tests Holmes's comprehension by showing her the "Who's on First?" Abbott and Costello routine, which she cannot explain — a scene the film uses to illustrate what it calls her "malignant narcissist" relationship with language.
- Amanda Seyfried anchors the second half, watching footage of Holmes and then reading transcripts of Holmes's prison phone calls, with Seyfried's portrayal growing increasingly sympathetic toward Holmes.
- Billy Evans strikes a profit deal with A24 executives for a share of the film's earnings without Holmes's knowledge, though she claims she preferred not to know.
Why it matters: The documentary lets Holmes continue her own defense on camera, insisting the Theranos device "worked" while only the chemistry remained unfinished — evidence that prison has not altered her self-narrative. It also reveals that partner Billy Evans quietly cut a profit deal with A24 behind her back, meaning the people around Holmes are still monetizing her story even as she begins serving 11 years.
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