Fielder and Oppenheim filmed Elizabeth Holmes at home before prison
Elizabeth Holmes opened her San Diego home to cameras in the days before she reported to federal prison, and that stay is now the documentary You Can See Everything.
Directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim talked through the shoot after its second public showing, in a Q&A moderated by New York Film Festival artistic director Dennis Lim, according to Deadline. The conversation took place at the festival, where the film made its New York debut.
The project began far from Silicon Valley. Fielder and Oppenheim said they first started talking about working together after attending a magic show in Los Angeles in 2023. Oppenheim said Holmes had reached out to A24, the company handling the film's release, looking for someone to document her life.
Fielder then called A24 and went to meet her. Holmes agreed to let cameras into the home she shares with partner Billy Evans and their two young children. What started with a single camera grew.
The team expanded to three cameras, shooting 16 hours a day with two small crews and no more than four people in the house at any one time, the directors said. The tight footprint was deliberate. They wanted long days inside the house without overwhelming family life.
Holmes is the Stanford dropout who founded blood-testing company Theranos. She is serving a 10-year sentence for defrauding investors. Her rise and fall had already been covered in an HBO documentary and a Hulu miniseries starring Amanda Seyfried.
For audiences new to that history, the pitch here is access rather than archive. The film stays in the house during her final days of freedom before she left for the federal prison in Bryan, Texas.
The festival route has been quick. You Can See Everything screened at Telluride before joining the Spotlight section of the New York programme for its New York debut, according to Deadline. A24 is the distributor, and the film has an October 2026 release date.
The 64th New York Film Festival was scheduled to run from 25 September through 12 October, according to Film at Lincoln Center. You Can See Everything was scheduled to screen on 30 September at Alice Tully Hall with Fielder and Oppenheim in attendance.
The Main Slate and Spotlight selection was organised by a committee chaired by Lim, with Florence Almozini among its members. Lim leads the festival as artistic director.
