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A Losing Game

Les perdants
Jenny Cartwright
2025 | 98 min
Documentary
French and English with English subtitles

Awards and Festivals

  • Official SelectionRVQC - Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montreal, Canada (2025)


Synopsis


Director's Statement

Trailer


Excerpts

Excerpt 1: Renaud Blais


Excerpt 2: Elza Kephart


Excerpt 3: Jean-Louis Thémis



Poster

Images









Team


Jenny Cartwright
Writer and Director


Photo




Pierre-Mathieu Fortin
Producer (NFB) 


Photo
Photo : ©2021 Valérie Sangin




Nathalie Cloutier
Executive Producer


Photo
Photo : Valérie Sangin



Credits

With
Renaud Blais – 213 votes (0.49% of votes)
Elza Kephart – 0 votes
Jean-Louis Thémis – 199 votes (0.68% of votes)
Hugo Bonin
Catherine Dorion
Francis Dupuis-Déri
Idil Issa

Researched, Written and Directed by
Jenny Cartwright – 102 votes (0.37%)

Cinematography
David Cherniak – 87 votes (0.29%)
Danae Elon

Camera
Josué Bertolino       

Location Sound
Claude Périard

Sound Design
Thierry Gauthier

Produced by
Pierre-Mathieu Fortin      

Editing
Anne Gabrielle Lebrun Harpin

Art Direction – Animation
Elizabeth Laferrière

Participants

Ministry of the New Normal
Kelly McKinney
Marguerite Kephart
Anne-Marie de la Sablonnière
Paola Chapdelaine
Mathilde Forest
Monika Napier
Mathieu Gagnon
Mireille Krause

Parti Culinaire
Christophe Dubois
Martin Mireault
Louis-Philippe Potvin
Monique Vadnais
Amélie Villeneuve
Lucie Villeneuve
Frédéric St-Laurent

Parti Nul
Myriam Fleury-Bérubé

Gouin Electoral Officers
Gaston Ducas
Marie Vallée

Green Party
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 Assistants
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 and Subtitling
Trans & Sub Coop

Online Editor and Colourist
Yannick Carrier

Narration Written by
Jenny Cartwright
Manal Drissi

Narrator
Rosemarie Sabor

Voice Direction
Alex Ivanovici

Foley
Lise Wedlock

Foley Assistant
Carmelita Glowacki

Foley and Narration Recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
Luc Léger

Music
Quelques mots sur le cirque électoral
Composed by René Binamé
Performed by Claude L’Anthrope

Re-recording Mixer
Isabelle Lussier

Visual Archives
Alamy
Archives de la Ville de Montréal
Radio-Canada Archives
Library and Archives Canada
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Chef Thémis – D’Antananarivo à Montréal
Collection de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec
Elza Kephart
Groupe TVA inc.
Illustration – Bernard Duchesne
iStockphoto
La Clique du Plateau inc. / Radio-Canada / Ardisson et Lumières France
La coop WEBTV
La Presse
The Canadian Press
Le Devoir
Le Nouvelliste
Le Soleil
Library of Congress
McCord Stewart Museum
NASA
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
National Film Board of Canada
Photography by Antoine Desilets
Pond5
Productions J
Sanctuary at SHO
Screenocean / Reuters
Steve Patry
Sylvain L’Espérance

Archival Research
Jenny Cartwright
Madame Karine

Rights Clearances
Madame Karine

The director would like to thank
David Cherniak, without whom this film would not have been possible
The Québec Solidaire team in Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata (which also includes Les Basques):
Myriam Lapointe-Gagnon
Marie-Hélène Harvey
Jérémie Frégeau
Émilie Lacroix
Benoit Ouellet
Stéphanie Robert
Hélia Tremblay-de-Mestral

as well as
The staff of the Directeur général des élections du Québec, who provided invaluable assistance

Thanks also to
Dominique Anglade and her team
Daphnée Azoulay
Halimatou Bah
Matthieu Bardin
Mona Belleau
Christian Blais
Andréanne Bouchard
Antony Boudreau Savoie
Luc Bourdon
Noémi Bureau-Civil
Maude Bussière
Christine Dandenault
Norman Dansereau
Salah Djerri
Éric Émond
Amar Fall
Raphaël Fortin
Kayla Fragman
Frédérique Gagné-Thibault
Véronique Gagnon
Olivier Gélinas Richard
Jeremy Ghio
Élisabeth Grégoire
Andrea Henriquez
Patricio Henriquez
Bernard Larin
Hugo Latulippe
Julien Leclerc
Philippe Lefebvre
Charlotte Lehoux
Katy LeRougetel
Sylvain L’Espérance
Mona Louis-Jean
Frank Malenfant
Joëlle Michaud
Pierre Morissette
Fleur Neesham
Laurie Perron and Alexandra Turgeon (toutEs ou pantoute)
Marc-André Pilon
Maryse Rancourt
Raphaël Rebelo
François-Xavier Richard-Choquette
Cindy Rousseau
Tami Sharp and Jason Hawley
France Séguin
Adis Simidzija
Julie St-Arnaud Drolet
Hugo St-Onge
Jean Tiphane
Kim Waldron
and also to the Direction du scrutin teams in Chauveau, Gouin, Mont-Royal-Outremont and Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata

The producer would like to thank
Thierry Giasson and Eric Montigny, professors in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, and Maxime Coulombe, doctoral student in political science at Université de Montréal, in addition to Cindy Moreau, Maxime Doyon-Laliberté, Maxime Roy, Gabrielle Brais-Harvey, Stéphanie Guévremont, François Leroux, Cédric Lapointe, Alexandra Bélisle, Eloïse Cassista
This project was supported by FCTMN’s mentoring program in development, with the help of Carmen Garcia

First Phase of Development
Picbois Productions – 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 Coordinators
Joëlle Lapointe
Chinda Phommarinh

Production Coordinators
Lucia Corak
Alexandra Levert

Technical Coordinators
Julien Archambault
Jean-François Laprise

Line Producer
Mélanie Lasnier

Executive Producer
Nathalie Cloutier

A National Film Board of Canada production

© 2025 National Film Board of Canada



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