The Shadow Scholars (2024)

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, 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.

• Release Date: 2024-10-17
• Runtime: 1h 37min
• Production Company: BFI
• Production Country: United Kingdom
• Director: Eloise King