A24's documentary You Can See Everything spent three years in confidential development before its existence became public through an unannounced screening at the Telluride Film Festival, an event that drew considerable audience speculation ahead of time. Fielder and Oppenheim, who co-directed the film, asked the capacity crowd to hold back details about its more unexpected plot turns.

Those who track awards-season prospects have flagged the film as a possible candidate to break new ground at the Oscars, where no documentary has yet received a best picture nomination. Roughly 800 theatres across North America are set to receive the film for its wide release — arriving about six weeks after its Telluride bow — with opening-weekend projections running as high as $8 million.

Capacity crowds filled the house at both the New York Film Festival and the Academy Museum in Los Angeles for a pair of subsequent screenings. Demand for seats at the New York Film Festival screening outpaced supply so completely that a programmer from Film at Lincoln Center was unable to get in, and said so publicly.

A deal struck between A24 and the New York Film Festival put the post-screening conversation among Fielder, Oppenheim, and festival director Dennis Lim on hold from public release until the opening weekend had passed, departing from the festival's usual practice of uploading Q&A videos shortly after screenings.

According to accounts Fielder has given during Q&A sessions, production on You Can See Everything got underway in 2023 when a seven-person crew made their way to the residence shared by Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans. The group assembled video of Holmes drawn from the weeks leading up to her sentencing — an 11-year prison term handed down following her wire fraud conviction and related charges tied to investor deception at Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded.

Freelance journalist Jeff Sneider published a 2025 report laying out a rumour that Fielder had been developing a project tied to visits with Holmes during her incarceration. No statement was made available from A24.

Nondisclosure agreements were reportedly part of the production process for Fielder's HBO series The Rehearsal — a show in which the comedian guides ordinary people through practice runs of difficult conversations, using paid actors and purpose-built sets — according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal and Variety.

In earlier projects — HBO's Ren Faire and the FX feature Spermworld — Oppenheim built his approach around drawing participants directly into the filmmaking, working alongside them to reconstruct pivotal moments and, on occasion, crafting compositions shaped by the inner lives of those on screen.

Once Holmes's imprisonment restricts the documentary crew's contact with her, a recognisable actor steps into the production during its later portion. Before screenings get underway, both Fielder and Oppenheim have stood before audiences to request that viewers refrain from revealing who plays the central role or describing the nature of that performer's participation.

Those handling awards promotion for You Can See Everything have not offered any direction to awards forecasters on the question of whether the performer's name should be kept from public view.

During a Q&A session at Telluride, Fielder told the audience that uncertainty about the nature of what happened to Holmes lingers even now — while A24's You Can See Everything continues its theatrical run.