Nathan Fielder's Holmes Doc Set for NYFF Spotlight Premiere — SkimNews
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- New York Film Festival added "You Can See Everything" to its Spotlight section as a late lineup addition, scheduling the New York premiere for the festival's Sept. 25–Oct. 12 run
- Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim built the film in secret over four years, living with Holmes and her romantic partner for 34 days before her incarceration while the couple professed her innocence
- Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder convicted of fraud, has inspired a parade of documentaries and dramatizations, but the festival calls this entry "like no other you have ever seen"
- A24 is releasing the film, which NYFF's program describes as a "head-spinning" and "frequently hilarious" portrait that "decimat[es] notions of objectivity in documentary while also interrogating the limits of fiction"
- The film had its sneak premiere at Telluride before the NYFF booking, where Deadline's review (and others) flagged it as an unusually self-reflexive project
Why it matters: The film's unconventional access — living with Holmes and her partner shortly before she began her prison sentence — and its self-reflexive approach distinguish it from the existing slate of Theranos exposés, giving A24 a documentary built as much on formal experimentation as on the fraud saga itself.
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