All About the Money (2026 film)

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 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] 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][4] 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][4] 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][5]

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.^[6]

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][5] O'Shea began developing the film with Screen Ireland in late 2022 and started filming in June 2023.^[5] She continued shooting through November 2025, with the final interview taking place after the film had already been accepted into the Sundance Film Festival.^[5]

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]

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]

Writing for Variety, Guy Lodge described the film as a "timely, pointed examination of how capitalist privilege can corrupt even an expressly anti-capitalist project" and called Chambers a "compellingly eccentric figure" who is "mercurial" and "unlovably charismatic."^[4]

Chambers himself was not enthusiastic about the finished film. According to O'Shea, he felt the documentary did not contain enough political content, particularly regarding his activism in Donbass.^[5][3]

• All About the Money at IMDb