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A24's 2026 film follows Nathan Fielder as he visits Elizabeth Holmes at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, built around unscripted encounters and shot by a small crew.

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  1. #001

    Before shooting started, Nathan Fielder secured a clause in his deal with A24 that let him and Lance Oppenheim walk away and deliver nothing if they failed to find a story worth telling. Should the experiment lead nowhere, Fielder said, they could just "throw it all away."

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  2. #002

    The team began with one camera and anamorphic lenses, then dropped that approach after a single day: it kept them from catching unscripted exchanges, notably when Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans talked with Nathan Fielder while off-camera. They moved to three cameras — two with long zooms and one wide — and on some days shot for 16 hours. Only 7 crew members were involved, and no more than 4 were in the house at any one time.

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  3. #003

    Nathan Fielder said he and Lance Oppenheim often disagreed about what they had just seen while filming Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans. Their failure to read the same events the same way is what convinced them they had found the film's core idea.

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  4. #004

    The project began during a visit by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim to the Magic Castle in Los Angeles. When a magician asked the audience to name a celebrity, someone shouted Elizabeth Holmes. The coincidence reminded Oppenheim that he had heard Holmes wanted her life documented, and the filmmakers set out to arrange a meeting with her.

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  5. #005

    Word spread in March 2025 that Nathan Fielder had been making visits to Elizabeth Holmes at Federal Prison Camp Bryan for an undisclosed project. A24 kept the title and specifics under wraps until September 6, 2026, when it presented the film as a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival.

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  6. #006

    Lance Oppenheim first reached out to Nathan Fielder after learning that Fielder had watched part of his documentary Some Kind of Heaven (2020). Already a fan of Fielder's work, Oppenheim sent him a cold email, and the two became friends before teaming up on this film.

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  7. #007

    At the unannounced Telluride premiere, attendees had to seal their phones in security pouches, and organizers cautioned that guards wearing night-vision goggles would watch the auditorium for any unauthorized recording.

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  8. #008
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    Amanda Seyfried was first asked only to watch the filmmakers' footage of Elizabeth Holmes and let them record her reaction. Once she said she was interested in playing Holmes again, the filmmakers widened her role to include reenactments of conversations and events they had not been able to capture.

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  9. #009
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    Holmes first appears on screen seen through the bars of one of her children's cribs. The closing image of her echoes that framing, viewing her through the barriers around the prison visitation area.

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  1. #010

    Nathan Fielder had planned to stay behind the camera. Since Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans kept addressing him while filming, the camera operators started swinging toward Fielder mid-conversation, and he gradually became a participant on screen in the documentary.

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