Young filmmaker Jazmin Jones and her collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross put on their detective caps – possibly with tinfoil lining underneath – in the award-winning new film Seeking Mavis Beacon. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you learned to type in the 1980s or ’90s, there’s a decent chance you had some help from Mavis Beacon. The fictional avatar was ...

Note: This review was originally published during Sundance 2024. We're reposting it because Seeking Mavis Beacon is now out in theaters. With a healthy dose of heart and whimsy, the Sundance ...

When the filmmaker Jazmin Jones was growing up, she thought of Mavis Beacon—the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a popular educational game first released in 1987—as a living and breathing ...

"In my journey to find out who is Mavis Beacon, I learned who she wasn't..." Neon has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Seeking Mavis Beacon, created by filmmaker Jazmin Jones ...

*In the award-winning NEON documentary “Seeking Mavis Beacon,” filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross embark on a curious journey to uncover the story behind a cultural icon most people never ...

Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross investigate Black representation in the Neon-backed documentary out this summer. As the documentary tells us, L’Esperance was spotted working a counter at a Los ...

An exciting presentation in Sundance’s NEXT section, Jazmin Jones' unconventional film chronicles a Don Quixote-like expedition to locate the model who appeared on a popular typing program. Jazmin ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

The brains behind Neon's genre-bending documentary tell IndieWire about the limits of representation and their complicated thoughts on deep fakes. If you learned to type in the 1980s or ’90s, there’s ...