Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Doc Screens in New York Ahead of October Release
Nathan Fielder lived with Elizabeth Holmes in the final weeks before she reported to prison, and the three-hour result screened in New York on Wednesday night.
You Can See Everything, directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, had its New York premiere at the New York Film Festival after a surprise debut at the Telluride Film Festival weeks earlier, according to Variety. The listing places the film in the Spotlight section of the 64th festival, which ran from 25 September to 12 October, according to Film at Lincoln Center. Distributor A24 will release the film on 16 October, according to U.S. News.
The film covers the days leading up to Holmes starting an 11-year sentence for fraud and her family life with partner Billy Evans, according to Variety. Holmes, the founder of the medical testing company Theranos, was convicted of defrauding investors, according to Variety and The Washington Post. That conviction came in 2022, according to Esquire.
The access was total. Holmes and Evans invited the directors into their home 34 days before the sentence was due to begin, according to Variety. The full trailer shows Fielder moving in to live with the couple around the clock.
The project began with a cold email. Oppenheim wrote to Fielder after learning that Fielder had watched part of Oppenheim’s documentary Some Kind of Heaven, according to Variety. Oppenheim already knew Holmes had contacted A24 about documenting her life, an idea that resurfaced after an audience member shouted her name during a show at the Magic Castle. Fielder, who had read the 2018 book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup about Theranos, then set up a meeting with Holmes through A24.
The shoot stayed quiet for three years, according to The Washington Post. A24 gave the filmmakers the option to walk away if they could not find a story worth telling, according to Variety.
At the post-screening question session in New York, Fielder said Holmes could seem genuine at times. Then he added: “I know she’s a liar,” according to Variety.
What makes this stand out is the arrangement itself. Most true-crime documentaries reconstruct events afterwards. Here the camera was organised around daily life in the countdown to prison, with the film-maker living inside the household he was filming.
