The Shadow Scholars
Synopsis
Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, where she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Official Selection IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2024 - International premiere
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2025
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 98 min
- Director
- Eloise King
- Producer
- Eloise King, Anna Smith Tenser, Bona Orakwue, Tabs Breese, Riel Roch-Decter
- Co-Producer
- Rienkje Attoh
- Executive Producer
- Steve McQueen, Patricia Kingori
- Editor
- Cinzia Baldesarri, Julian Quantrill
- Screenwriter
- Eloise King
- Director of Photography
- Jonas Mortensen, Anna Patarakina, Jermaine Edwards, Joel Honeywell, Justin Ervin
- Sound
- Sound Designer: Chad Orororo
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 22nd April 2025
