It’s a bet !

Directed and written by Hervé Martin Delpierre

75 minutes

 

The rise of internet betting is changing the face of sports for the worse. Cheating and corruption are spreading to unprecedented levels that have set off alarms for international sports federations. With the help of INTERPOL investigators, they are trying to fight back a globalized system that has been co-opted by Asian and East European mafias into a huge laundering machines. But internet knows no border. And the lure for quick and easy money may be the death of competitive sports.

This investigative documentary takes us at the very center of the secretive system of sports e-gaming, with its rules, its flaws and dire consequences that are pushing hundreds of players off the field into courtrooms.

 

 

Partners

Coproduced with Simple production, RTBF and ARTE France. With the particpation of GA&A Productions, Radio-Canada, RTS, VRT, Middle East News & Al Arabiya and the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image animée, Procirep, Angoa, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

 

Crew

Produced by Serge Guez

Editing : Hervé Martin Delpierre

Photography : Hervé Martin Delpierre, Mathieu Czernichow, Yoan Cart

Graphic conception : Jérôme Letué

Original Music : Michel Berckmans

Sound mixing : Alexis Oscari, Jeff Savari

Colour correction : Xavier Pique

Assistants director : David Attali Daiwaihk (Hong Kong), Barbara Schölnberger (Londres), Lucio Mollica (Italie)

 

Festivals

Prix Europa 2012, Berlin

INPUT 2012, Hilversum, Pays-Bas

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