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 the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a bestselling series of ...

Jazmin Renée Jones’ “Seeking Mavis Beacon” isn’t your typical kind of quest movie. Premiering in the NEXT section at Sundance, the format-defying film follows the nonbinary Black filmmaker on an ...

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 ...

Beacon was the face of the popular software program ''Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" before an apparent disappearance. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The film will profile the influential Black ...

Mavis Beacon taught millions to type. She was also fictional. Her legacy sparks a cinematic inquiry in Jazmin Renée Jones’s absorbing documentary. Through the late 1980s and ’90s, one woman was ...

Logline: Launched in the late ’80s, educational software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the program’s Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY investigators ...

Role models come in all shapes and sizes, invariably saying more about the nature of influencing than the person setting the example. A hearty thank-you, then, to pioneering computer-age figure Mavis ...

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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 ...

Role models come in all shapes and sizes, invariably saying more about the nature of influencing than the person setting the example. A hearty thank-you, then, to pioneering computer-age figure Mavis ...