Filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim examine convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything, a new documentary that follows her final weeks before imprisonment and the efforts of her family to challenge her public image. The film also reveals that her husband, Billy Evans, created an AI-generated replica of Holmes to interact with their children while she serves her prison sentence.
Released by A24 on October 16, 2026, the nearly three-hour documentary combines interviews, observational footage, and reenactments to examine Holmes’ continued claims of innocence. Actress Amanda Seyfried, who portrayed Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout, also participates in the production.
Documentary Follows Holmes Before Her Prison Sentence
Holmes and Evans approached A24 in April 2023, approximately one month before she was scheduled to begin serving an 11-year federal prison sentence for fraud. They proposed documenting her remaining time outside prison, hoping to present a different account of her involvement in the failed blood-testing company Theranos.
Fielder and Oppenheim subsequently spent time filming Holmes and her family, questioning her understanding of the criminal case and the public perception surrounding it. Despite her conviction for defrauding investors, Holmes repeatedly maintains in the documentary that she did not commit a crime.
The filmmakers also revisit a controversial New York Times profile published shortly before Holmes entered prison. Holmes and Evans dispute a quotation suggesting that her public persona had been deliberately constructed, although the documentary shows Evans failing to provide evidence supporting their alternative wording.
AI Replica Allows Evans to Simulate Holmes’ Presence
One of the documentary’s developments involves an AI-generated representation of Holmes created by Evans. The digital version appears on a large vertical screen that Evans brings to the family dinner table, allowing their children to interact with a simulated version of their mother.
The documentary presents the replica as part of Evans’ attempts to maintain Holmes’ presence during her incarceration. It also raises questions about how technology can reproduce a person’s appearance and behavior while leaving uncertainty about the distinction between the individual and their digital representation.
Amanda Seyfried Returns to Recreate Holmes’ Conversations
After Holmes begins serving her sentence, Fielder faces restrictions on recording devices during prison visits. He attempts to reconstruct their conversations from memory, writing scripts that capture what he recalls of Holmes’ statements and behavior.
Seyfried joins the project to portray Holmes during these reconstructions, revisiting a role she previously performed in The Dropout. The documentary includes scenes of Seyfried watching Holmes react emotionally to the television dramatization of her relationship with former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani.
The film ultimately examines the difficulty of separating documented events from personal accounts and performed identities. Through Holmes, Evans, Fielder, and Seyfried, You Can See Everything questions how documentary filmmaking can establish an accurate account when its participants disagree about what happened.
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