2020
Some Kind of Heaven
A feature documentary set in The Villages, Florida.
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OPPENHEIM
แลนซ์ ออพเพนไฮม์
Finding cinema in real lives
Lance Oppenheim is an American documentary filmmaker behind Some Kind of Heaven, Ren Faire and You Can See Everything.
Documentary worlds and the people inside them
Oppenheim is a filmmaker from South Florida whose early nonfiction shorts appeared in The New York Times Op-Docs. His work often follows people inside distinctive communities and institutions.
His feature documentary Some Kind of Heaven premiered at Sundance in 2020 and follows residents of the Florida retirement community The Villages. In 2024 he directed the feature Spermworld and the series Ren Faire, taking his camera into two very different social worlds.
For You Can See Everything (2026), he co-directed with Nathan Fielder, following Elizabeth Holmes before she began her prison sentence. The film explores how a person presents herself to a camera and how filmmakers approach that presentation.
The titles below are those available on FLM.RED, not his complete filmography.
Selected directing work
2024
Ren Faire
A documentary series set around a Renaissance festival.
2026
You Can See Everything
Co-directed with Nathan Fielder.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.