Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Stuns Telluride — SkimNews
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- Telluride Film Festival programmed the Holmes documentary as its secret sneak premiere — a gamble chief Julie Huntsinger acknowledged, since nonfiction typically lacks the broad draw of features — and more than 24 hours later, attendees were still buzzing about the nearly three-hour film.
- Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans invited Fielder to film them for the roughly 30 days before Holmes reported to federal prison in Texas in 2023 after her conviction for defrauding investors (she was acquitted of defrauding patients, a distinction the source notes she stresses in the documentary).
- Billy Evans emerges in the film as a potentially controlling figure who admits to taking over Holmes's X/Twitter feed and tweeting as her, and who pursued — then abandoned — a deal for A24 to pay him and Holmes to appear in the documentary, "possibly without her knowledge."
- Nathan Fielder, the Canadian comedian co-directing with Lance Oppenheim, worked in intense secrecy on the project since before Holmes's prison term and told the source he didn't even know whether A24 would take it to another festival or move straight to a theatrical release next month.
- Emma Stone moderated the post-premiere Q&A so effectively that a veteran journalist congratulated her on the performance, with the source noting that actors "typically don't excel" at moderating.
- Alex Gibney's prior documentary The Inventor and Hulu's The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried, had already "skewered" and "devastatingly" portrayed Holmes, prompting her and Evans to court Fielder in hopes of reviving Theranos in a new form.
- The film's crew themselves could not agree on what they had witnessed of the couple's motives after each day of shooting, leaving the documentary's arch title — "You Can See Everything" — pointedly unresolved in the source's telling.
Why it matters: The documentary's distribution decision — whether A24 takes the nearly three-hour film to another festival or releases it theatrically next month — will determine how widely this new portrait of Holmes reaches audiences. Evans's admitted takeover of Holmes's Twitter account and his abandoned attempt to negotiate payment from A24 without her knowledge add a fresh coercive-control dimension to the Holmes story beyond the original fraud conviction.
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