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A Losing Game

2025 1 h 37 min
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A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in the 2022 Quebec provincial election, casting a critical eye on our electoral system—and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional.

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A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in Quebec’s October 2022 provincial election. 

The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose.  

Through their individual campaigns, the film peels back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and racialized people, deficiencies in the voting process, unfair campaign financing rules and the undue weight given to media and polls. 

In this documentary, Jenny Cartwright casts a critical eye on a political system that doesn’t offer everyone the same opportunities. For most, the race is over before it even begins. But, thanks to the way the electoral system is set up, the big losers are the rest of us.

 

  • participation
    Renaud Blais
    Elza Kephart
    Jean-Louis Thémis
    Hugo Bonin
    Francis Dupuis-Déri
    Catherine Dorion
    Idil Issa
  • research
    Jenny Cartwright
  • writing
    Jenny Cartwright
  • direction
    Jenny Cartwright
  • cinematography
    David Cherniak
    Danae Elon
  • camera
    Josué Bertolino
  • location sound
    Claude Périard
  • sound design
    Thierry Gauthier
  • production
    Pierre-Mathieu Fortin
  • editing
    Anne Gabrielle Lebrun Harpin
  • art direction - animation
    Elizabeth Laferrière
  • participant
    Kelly McKinney
    Marguerite Kephart
    Anne-Marie de la Sablonnière
    Paola Chapdelaine
    Mathilde Forest
    Monika Napier
    Mathieu Gagnon
    Mireille Krause
    Christophe Dubois
    Martin Mireault
    Louis-Philippe Potvin
    Monique Vadnais
    Amélie Villeneuve
    Lucie Villeneuve
    Frédéric St-Laurent
    Myriam Fleury-Bérubé
    Gaston Ducas
    Marie Vallée
    Alex Tyrrell
  • additional camera
    Vanessa Abadhir
    Émile Bureau
    Benoit Ouellet
  • additional sound recording
    Arnaud Beaudoux
    Jean-François Caissy
    David Cherniak
    Marie-Andrée Cormier
    Dimitri Médard
    François Pinet-Forcier
    Simon Plouffe
  • production manager
    Nadia Koromyslova
  • production assistant
    Chloé Gayraud
    David Sanchez
  • grip - studio
    Ian Zentner
  • animation
    Rémi Vincent
    Sindre Ulvik Péladeau
  • additional research - animation
    Vincent J. Carbonneau
    Mercédez Roberge
  • technical support - editing
    Pierre Dupont
    Marie-Josée Gourde
    Albert Kurian
    Patrick Trahan
  • computer graphics
    Cynthia Ouellet
  • translation
    Trans & Sub Coop
  • subtitling
    Trans & Sub Coop
  • online editing
    Yannick Carrier
  • colourist
    Yannick Carrier
  • narration - writer
    Jenny Cartwright
    Manal Drissi
  • narrator
    Rosemarie Sabor
  • voice direction
    Alex Ivanovici
  • foley
    Lise Wedlock
  • foley assistant
    Carmelita Glowacki
  • foley recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
    Luc Léger
  • narration recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
    Luc Léger
  • re-recording mixer
    Isabelle Lussier
  • archival research
    Jenny Cartwright
    Madame Karine
  • rights clearances
    Madame Karine
  • first phase of development
    Karine Dubois
  • legal counsel
    Peter Kallianiotis
  • press relations
    Nadine Viau
  • marketing manager
    Laurianne Désormiers
  • marketing coordinator
    Jolène Lessard
  • administrator
    Sia Koukoulas
  • senior coordinator - administration
    Brenda Nixon
  • studio coordinator
    Stéphanie Lazure
  • senior production coordinator
    Joëlle Lapointe
    Chinda Phommarinh
  • production coordinator
    Lucia Corak
    Alexandra Levert
  • technical coordination
    Julien Archambault
    Jean-François Laprise
  • line producer
    Mélanie Lasnier
  • executive producer
    Nathalie Cloutier