In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh catches up with Director Sinéad O'Shea, as her latest feature All About the Money hits cinemas.

All About the Money tells the story of James "Fergie" Cox Chambers Jr., a billionaire heir to a media dynasty. Chambers is a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist communist who uses his vast inheritance to establish a collective of 'revolutionaries' in Alford, Massachusetts. However, as the film unfolds, so too do a series of increasingly bizarre, chaotic and often extraordinary events.

Sinéad chats to us about her path as a filmmaker, meeting and observing the fascinating figure of Fergie, and her role in documenting the surreal events that make this story stranger than fiction.

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Have a listen here to Sinéad chatting about her films Pray for Our Sinners and Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

Sinéad O’Shea

Sinéad is a filmmaker and writer. Her latest feature documentary, All About The Money, premiered in the World Documentary Competition at Sundance 2026 and will receive its theatrical release later this year. The film recently won Best Documentary at the San Francisco Documentary Festival and has been nominated for awards at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, Docville FF, Movies That Matter FF, CPH and Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF.

Sinéad’s previous documentary, Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story, is the most successful Irish documentary to have been released at the UK and Irish box office. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024 and won awards at Cork FF and Palm Springs FF. Her other documentary, Pray For Our Sinners, premiered at Toronto in 2022 and was nominated for awards at Chicago FF, Globe Docs FF and Hamptons FF, where it won Best Documentary.

Her debut feature documentary, A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, premiered at CPH in 2018, where it was nominated for a FACT Award. She has also directed the short drama Humblebrag, which screened at BFI London Film Festival in 2019, and is currently developing her first feature drama, Girl 16 Navan.

Prior to her filmmaking career, Sinéad reported for Al Jazeera English, The Guardian and The New York Times.