{"id":444630,"date":"2026-05-12T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444630\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:06:18","slug":"common-wealth-documentary-to-open-in-australia-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444630\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Common Wealth&#8217; Documentary to Open in Australia, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/common-wealth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_common-wealth\" data-tag=\"common-wealth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Common Wealth<\/a>,\u201d a documentary filmed across eight countries probing alternatives to prevailing economic and political systems, will open in Australian and New Zealand cinemas on June 23. Madman Entertainment is releasing the film through its Garage Films division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe project is the debut documentary feature from writer-director-presenter Kane Guglielmi, who frames his own journey through the film as that of a conservatively raised capitalist seeking greater prosperity beyond the models he grew up with. Guglielmi produced the film via his company Darkwood Entertainment. Academy Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/vanessa-redgrave\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vanessa-redgrave\" data-tag=\"vanessa-redgrave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanessa Redgrave<\/a> is among those who appear in it. Guglielmi will undertake a promotional tour of more than 30 cities across Australia and New Zealand beginning on opening day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAs I enter my fourth year on this global journey, I must admit, the timing of its ultimate theatrical release feels rather uncanny. What seemed like a subject matter of somewhat distant relevance in 2022 seems to have suddenly shifted to the forefront of the minds of the majority. Without a doubt divine intervention,\u201d Guglielmi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film engages with themes of housing insecurity, cost-of-living pressure, political division and global conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGiven the global nature of \u2018Common Wealth\u2019 and its timely and poignant themes, my ambition is to take the film beyond Australian shores to an international audience. It\u2019s deeply connecting and inspiring all walks of life. People are desperately searching for hope and reasons to be positive for the future in such confusing and divisive times,\u201d Guglielmi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGuglielmi has sold the spec script \u201cThe Groundbreaker,\u201d a 19th-century piece centered on Irish immigrant John Mackay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCommon Wealth,\u201d a documentary filmed across eight countries probing alternatives to prevailing economic and political systems, will open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[193428,93,61,60,270,193429],"class_list":["post-444630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-common-wealth","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-vanessa-redgrave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}