For years, Elizabeth Holmes has been portrayed on screen by journalists, filmmakers and actors trying to explain how one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated startups collapsed into one of its most notorious fraud cases.

This time, Holmes herself opened the door.

A new documentary titled You Can See Everything follows the Theranos founder during the final 34 days she spent at home before reporting to federal prison in May 2023. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, offers an unusually intimate look at Holmes during a period when her freedom was rapidly running out.

The project marks something previous movies and television dramatizations about Holmes did not have: her direct participation.

And the first glimpse of the documentary makes clear that the filmmakers were not simply observing from a distance.

Cameras Entered Holmes’ Life Before Prison

Holmes, now 42, founded Theranos in 2003 and built the blood-testing company into a Silicon Valley phenomenon before its claims and business practices came under intense scrutiny.

She was convicted in January 2022 of defrauding Theranos investors and sentenced that November.

Before beginning her prison term, Holmes was living with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two children, son William and daughter Invicta.

You Can See Everything enters that family environment during an extraordinary countdown: the last 34 days before Holmes surrendered to federal custody on May 30, 2023.

According to the documentary’s description, the cameras followed her closely during those final weeks.

The filmmakers’ access did not end when Holmes entered prison. Fielder and Oppenheim also visited her after she began serving her sentence, extending the project beyond the final days of her life at home.

That access separates the documentary from earlier productions about the Theranos scandal.

The 2019 documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley examined the company and its collapse, while the 2022 Hulu series The Dropout dramatized Holmes’ rise and fall with Amanda Seyfried in the starring role.

But You Can See Everything is the first film project about Holmes in which Holmes herself agreed to participate.

A Secret Screening Revealed the Film

The documentary arrived with little advance warning.

It was unveiled during a top-secret screening at the Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2026, where audiences received the first major look at the project.

A teaser was released publicly at the same time.

Rather than beginning with boardrooms, laboratories or courtroom proceedings, the footage puts Holmes face-to-face with Fielder inside her San Diego home.

Their exchange quickly becomes uncomfortable.

Holmes tells Fielder that she is interacting with him as a human being and questions why she would have any reason to deceive him.

Fielder responds skeptically, asking whether she is being genuine in that moment.

Holmes insists that she is always being real.

Then the camera pulls back, revealing one of her children sitting nearby in a baby bouncer.

It is a small visual detail, but it captures the unusual perspective of the film.

The Holmes presented here is not simply the black-turtleneck-wearing startup founder whose public image became inseparable from Theranos. She is shown at home, with a baby nearby, preparing to leave her family and begin a lengthy federal prison sentence.

The Documentary Revisits a Familiar Story From a New Angle

Holmes’ story has already been examined extensively.

Theranos promised to revolutionize medical testing by using tiny amounts of blood to conduct numerous tests. Holmes became one of Silicon Valley’s most famous entrepreneurs as the company’s profile and valuation soared.

That public image eventually collapsed.

Her criminal case centered on allegations that investors were misled about Theranos and its technology. Following her 2022 conviction, Holmes received an 11-year prison sentence.

Her time behind bars has since been shortened by two years for good behavior.

She is serving her sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, and is currently expected to be released on Dec. 30, 2031.

The new film therefore arrives at an unusual moment.

The dramatic rise of Theranos, its collapse and Holmes’ criminal trial are already widely known. Instead of simply retelling that history, You Can See Everything appears to focus closely on the person at the center of it after the verdict had already been delivered.

The central tension is no longer whether Holmes will be convicted.

She already has been.

The question becomes what she says, how she behaves and how she understands herself while knowing exactly what is about to happen.

Holmes Has Spoken About Her Life Behind Bars

Since entering prison, Holmes has also described the experience in deeply personal terms.

She previously characterized incarceration as surreal and said that strangers who had never met her held powerful beliefs about who she was.

Holmes said prison forced her to think about belief, truth and how other people perceived her. She also described the experience as extremely painful while maintaining faith that what she considers the truth will ultimately emerge.

Those comments give the documentary another layer.

Holmes became internationally recognizable partly because questions about truth and credibility surrounded Theranos. Now, years later, she is again discussing those same concepts from inside prison.

The teaser suggests Fielder will not simply accept those claims without questioning them.

His exchange with Holmes about whether she is being genuine points directly toward one of the issues that has followed her for years: how much of what audiences see should they believe?

The Final Days Before Everything Changed

The 34-day structure gives the film a natural countdown.

Each day moves Holmes closer to May 30, 2023, when she left her home life and entered federal custody.

During that period, she was not only a convicted former CEO preparing for prison. She was also the mother of two young children.

That contrast appears to be central to the documentary’s approach.

Audiences already know what happens at the end of the countdown.

Holmes reports to prison.

What they have not previously seen in this detail is what happened before she got there — inside the home, during conversations with filmmakers and amid the family life she was preparing to leave behind.

Fielder and Oppenheim then followed the story into the next stage by visiting Holmes in prison.

The result promises to be less of a conventional recap of Theranos and more of a close examination of Holmes at one of the most consequential transitions of her life.

A New Version of a Story Audiences Thought They Knew

Holmes has already been the subject of documentaries, podcasts, books and a successful television drama.

But those projects largely observed her from the outside.

You Can See Everything changes that equation by putting Holmes directly in front of the filmmakers and allowing her to participate in telling — and potentially challenging — the story that has formed around her.

Whether the documentary changes anyone’s view of Holmes remains to be seen.

What is already clear is that the filmmakers gained access during a period few outsiders had witnessed: the final month before she exchanged her San Diego home for federal prison.

The documentary will arrive in theaters on Oct. 16.

And after years of other people attempting to explain Elizabeth Holmes, audiences will now watch Holmes attempt to explain herself.