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EXCLUSIVE TRAILER- THE SHADOW SCHOLARS @variety 💥
Eloise King’s “The Shadow Scholars,” which will receive its North American premiere Friday 6th June at the Tribeca Festival in the Spotlight strand.
The film is a co-production between Steve McQueen’s Lammas Park and White Teeth Films, and is executive produced by the U.K.’s Film4, Dogwoof and the BFI Doc Society.
‘The Shadow Scholars’ follows Patricia Kingori - Oxford University’s youngest woman and Black professor in its 925-year history - as she investigates the hidden, global, multi-billion-dollar “fake essay” industry. Her exploration leads to the young “shadow scholars” of Kenya: an estimated 40,000 highly educated, underemployed Kenyans who make ends meet by writing academic papers for students around the world.
As demand rises, so do the tensions from impending crackdowns in the U.K. and Australia to the growing threat of A.I. Prompting Kingori to ask: if the world’s elite can pay for degrees they haven’t earned, while educated Kenyans are unable to find work outside this shadow industry, what is the true value of education?
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05 Jun 2025
We are thrilled The Shadow Scholars has been longlisted for the 2026 EE @bafta Film Awards in the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer category.✨✨
It’s an honour to receive this recognition from the voters & jury.
Congratulations & Good luck to the whole team and all the other long-listed films. ✨✨✨
26 Jan 2026
Bringing THE SHADOW SCHOLARS back to the Continent at @joburg_film_festival means more than words contain. We were nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ alongside visionary filmmakers: Raoul Peck’s ‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’, @vusiafrica ‘Happy Sindane’ (a must see) and Rehad Desai’s ‘Capturing Water’ and we received a Special Jury Mention (!!!)
I’m overwhelmed with gratitude, for all the moments people and perseverance represented through the work… For the writers without whom there would be no film, for trusting even when faced with the very real risks.
Thank you to producers Anna Smith Tenser Bona Orakwue Tabs Breese, our production teams crews, academics and funders who believed in and backed mine and Prof. Patricia Kingori’s research n’ vision and the journey.
It’s been transformative to comprehend the subject is so much bigger than any one person (me, us, them) - the film is a vessel evidencing how intertwined our lives and intersecting experiences of education are. If knowledge is power - we ask - for who and to what ends?
Collaborating with the writers was a collective act of service; to do justice to the African writer’s brilliance, to observe and confront the Global majority’s complex relationship to education. In service to those of us who owe Education so much to whom Education owes so much more. Connecting those of us who experience educational institutions as both both the key to enter and the barriers keeping us out.
Any recognition for the film is recognition of Kenyan writers from which we hope new opportunities can exist.
Deep Thanks for the thoughtful consideration of the jury @victor_okhai @yolanda_ncokotwana @muneera_sallies @sthakgoroge @shawforlife @melski_parry who recommended our film be seen around the world: in communities and in institutions
Special thank you: Tim Mangwedi @TarynJoffe
Jack Chiang, Nhlanhla Ndaba Mbali fostering a space nurturing African storytelling, innovation and industry growth 🚀♥️ 🇿🇦
@multichoice_group @sabcsales @netflixsa
#JFF2025
#TheGoldenThread
#JoburgFilmFestival2025
19 Mar 2025
📍 The new Black Film Bulletin in @SightSoundmagazine has landed ✈️
INSIDE: as the fifth anniversary of the Black Film Bulletin closes, its editors look back on the cultural changes witnessed since the publication began, Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker talk Cunk on cinema, Lance Oppenheim discusses Primetime, Lee Chang-dong on Possible Love, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo on La bola negra, Quentin Tarantino watches Brian De Palma’s Murder à la Mod and 20 years after its release, we revisit Andrea Arnold’s Red Road...
📍 BLACK FILM BULLETIN
Closing out the fifth anniversary of the BFB’s return to print, we discuss ancestral magic with the director and stars of Children of Blood and Bone and expanding the Black canon with Ashley Clark – and reflect on the cultural changes we’ve seen since the bulletin began.
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WE ARE THE STORY: CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE
Tomi Adeyemi’s young-adult bestseller @ChildrenofBloodandBone confronts racism and persecution through dazzling fantasy inflected with West African culture and mythology – and has now been adapted as a star-studded blockbuster by @gpbmadeit Gina Prince-Bythewood. She and actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lashana Lynch talk to @elloweezee Eloïse King about collaboration, representation, youth and magic.
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THE CINEMATIC BLACK: ASHLEY CLARK IN CONVERSATION
In his latest book, The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films, film programmer and Criterion Collection curatorial director @_ash_clark Ashley Clark makes his case for an expansion of the diasporic Black film canon beyond American hegemony. BFB editor @Jana.Sante sat down with Clark to connect the dots.
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SPEAK EASY: RATIONALE FOR A REVIVAL
To wrap up five years since the Black Film Bulletin returned to print, @NadiaOAwad takes stock of its significance, from its formulation of the hopes and struggles of early 1990s Black filmmaking to its window on the strides made by Black film culture today.
#BlackFilmBulletin x #SightandSound
December 2026 | Out Now in Print & Digital
🔗 Buy a copy via the link in our bio
📷 On the cover: Godzilla, from Gojira to Minus Zero: an int
06 Nov 2026
We are delighted to share The Shadow Scholars has been longlisted for @griersontrust Awards 2026, Best Single Documentary - Domestic alongside some outstanding films .🎓🎓🎓🎓
Congratulations to the team, our contributors, collaborators and partners ✨
Best of luck to everyone. Nominations will be announced in September.
#GriersonAwards
20 Jul 2026
NORTH LONDON FOREVER 🔴🏆
BEST TEAM. BEST FANS. PURE JOY n MEMZ @lucyasparks 🫶🏾
@samuel_trainorb DJ’ed to Highbury Corner 6 solid hrs 👌🏾
Next year we GO again. 🙌🏾 ♥️🤍♥️🤍♥️🤍♥️🤍♥️🤍
#coyg #arsenal #premierleaguechampions #northlondon
01 Jun 2026
Our incredible directors helming the 5x5 pieces. 🌿💚
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Daniel Rands
Shalini Adnani
Grace Duggan
Eloise King
Sasha Milavic Davies
George Belfield
With only one three hour rehearsal these talented directors create and hone the magic that you will see tomorrow night! We couldn’t be more excited ✨
5x5 May 15 th. 6pm . The Conduit. See you there 💫
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Bios:
Daniel Rands — London-based writer/director (NFTS grad) whose award-winning shorts have screened internationally; most recently directed A Knock at the Door for Vertigo Films x Channel 5’s revival of Play for Today.
Shalini Adnani — Chilean-born, Indian-origin writer/director based in London; her short White Ant premiered at Sundance and was acquired by Canal+, and her Film4/BFI-funded debut feature Our Share of Sand is in post-production. Named Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2025.
Grace Duggan is a theatre director from East London with credits across the Almeida, Royal Court, and Young Vic. She is currently Associate Director on Inter Alia at the National Theatre, and previously served as Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse.
Eloïse King — Queer, London-born interdisciplinary filmmaker of Caribbean heritage and former Global Executive Producer at VICE & i-D; her debut feature documentary The Shadow Scholars (exec produced by Steve McQueen, Film4, BFI) premiered at BFI LFF 2024 and was BAFTA Film 2026 Outstanding Debut longlisted. 📸 Derrick T. Kakembo
Sasha Milavic Davies — Director, dramaturg, and movement director; Senior Dramaturg at the National Theatre, co-founder of The Yard Theatre, and Artistic Associate at Complicite, with credits spanning the NT, Donmar, Almeida, Globe, and Royal Danish Opera.
George Belfield is a London-based director and screenwriter whose work includes Smothered for Sky and series across Netflix, Paramount+, and NBC Universal. He also directed Elisabeth Moss in the acclaimed Max Richter short film On the Nature of Daylight.
14 May 2026
If you’re flying American Airlines or Cathay Pacific, Emirates or Quantas this spring you can watch The Shadow Scholars on American Airlines 🪽Free Inflight Entertainment alongside some absolute classics like… Parent Trap, @mistressdispellerfilm and Black Panther (‼️) ✈️🎓
09 Apr 2026
Body and Soul: A show in two halves by two choreographers, Crystal Pite and Kameron N. Saunders performed by the English National Ballet stirs on the essence of the human condition.
How do we interpret the world around us? How do we respond and react, in our bodies and in our minds?
The first half entirely in French opens with two people moving to a disembodied instructional voice. Meditations on conflict were evoked in mesmerising duets that fanned out to powerful group movement. Mimicking the pulsating swell symptomatic of tide - to people-waves crashing in perfect synchronicity on a sensible shoreline. As the dancers bodies waxxed or waned, rhythmically-hypnotic-sonics: words repeated, loops and echoes - breaking and making form.
Saunders, second half opened with a single dancer in white, made-large in impressive geometry of stark white light against a black surround. Variations on reform, sexuality, censorship, global genocides being planted through spoken word, bodies and emphasised by striking minimalist and set design, without ever explicitly being named. Instead, inviting us to invoke the battle to access the authentic self - then to consider the judgements society projects on us, the decisions we make, and their impact on us and those around us.
Thanks to @zai_swanzy @blackthings_blackfriends for collaborating with @englishnationalballet to bring 100 Global Majority audience members to the performance through accessible ticket pricing.
26 Mar 2026
Glesca, pure gallus 🏴🤲🏾
07 Mar 2026
D I A S P O R A H U E S
☀️💛🎺🥭☄️🌋🍊🧡🔥💥🌺💗🫁🧠🫀🍉🌹💋♥️
18 Feb 2026
154 Art Fair x The Diaspora Salon , Marrakech
1. ‘Statues Also Breathe’ Prune Nourry and the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Obafemi-Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, MACAAL
2. Reina and I, ‘Statues Also Breathe’, 📷 @vgracelily MACAAL
3. ‘Statues Also Breathe’ video and signage
Featuring 108 life-sized terracotta heads representing the schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014, MACAAL
4. Keesha, Vanessa, Natasha and I outside, MACAAL
5. Light and cactus through window, Marrakech
6. View from the Roof @ Riad Zaman, Bab Ayoun, Marrakech (host 🦋Jude Chehab not pictured )
7. Self portrait on my balcony Jnane Tamsna, Disapora Salon 2026, Marrakech
8. Palm tree shadows, Jnane Tamsna
9. My favourite Breakfast Jnane Tamsna,
10. Brazilian performance as part of “DIÁSPORA DO TAMBOR” (Diaspora of the Drum), Montresso Foundation
11. ‘What if Icarus no longer fell…’ Dr FAHAMU Pecou, Montresso Foundation
12. Woman in water, DIÁSPORA DO TAMBOR, Montresso Foundation
13. Alexis Peskine, Montresso Foundation
14. Light on my wall and green Ethiopian jelly shoes, Jnane Tamsna
15. Light /shadow, Jnane Tamsna
16. My copy of ‘The Sum of Us’ Heather McGhee 🧡gifted & signed by Author, The diaspora Salon
17 Women on Petrol Cans, , MAACAL
18. Adoulaye Konaté (Mali), MAACAL
19. Pyramid, The Diaspora Salon
20. ~~water~~
17 Feb 2026
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