All About the Money (2026 film)
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Claire McCabe
Harry Vaughn
Katie Holly
Sigrid Dyekjær
| All About the Money | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sinéad O'Shea |
| Written by | Sinéad O'Shea |
| Produced by | Sinéad O'Shea Claire McCabe Harry Vaughn Katie Holly Sigrid Dyekjær |
| Cinematography | Enda O'Dowd |
| Edited by | Enda O'Dowd |
| Music by | George Brennan |
Production companies | SOS Productions Real Lava |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
All About the Money is a 2026 Irish documentary film directed, written, and produced by Sinéad O'Shea, with producers Claire McCabe, Harry Vaughn, Katie Holly, and Sigrid Dyekjær.[1] It made its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.[2]
The film follows two years in the life of Fergie Chambers, the great-grandson of James M. Cox, a former Governor of Ohio and 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, and a member of the family behind Cox Enterprises.[3][4] Chambers founds a communist collective on a property in Alford, Massachusetts, offering free accommodation to residents aligned with his Marxist–Leninist principles, with the stated goal of disrupting the capitalist system.[2][5] The film traces his journey from the Massachusetts commune to Tunisia, where he relocates after arrests stemming from a protest action against Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems and where he finances a soccer club.[3][5] The documentary also addresses the broader political context of the October 7 attacks, the Israel–Hamas war, and the political comeback of Donald Trump.[3][6] At the end of the film, a title card reveals that Chambers offered to fully fund the film if she agreed never to screen it; another card adds that she turned him down and he understood.[7]
Development
All About the Money is produced by Claire McCabe, Sinéad O’Shea, Katie Holly, Harry Vaughn, and Sigrid Dyekjær, with support from Screen Ireland, Inevitable Pictures, and Real Lava.[8]
O'Shea first learned about Chambers through a friend who had briefly lived at his Massachusetts project during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] After researching Chambers and his family background, she wrote to him, and he agreed to be filmed without any terms or conditions, signing only a standard release.[3][6] O'Shea began developing the film with Screen Ireland in late 2022 and started filming in June 2023.[6] O'Shea and O'Dowd traveled to Tunisia with Chambers, where authorities confiscated three days of footage.[7] She continued shooting through November 2025, with the final interview taking place after the film had already been accepted into the Sundance Film Festival.[6]
An alternative working title for the film was Eye of the Needle, a reference to the biblical parable in which a rich man is told he has no more chance of entering heaven than a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle. O'Shea ultimately felt the title was too obscure.[3]
Release
All About the Money made its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.[2] It was available online for public viewing from January 29 to February 1, 2026.[1]