Generations learned to type using the Mavis Beacon software—and had no idea she wasn’t a real person. But what about the model used for her image, who vanished from the public eye?

*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 ...

With a healthy dose of heart and whimsy, the Sundance documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon follows two young Black women who are devoted to finding the original model for Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.

Through the late 1980s and ’90s, one woman was responsible for guiding a generation of students into the computer age: Mavis Beacon, star of the best-selling educational software “Mavis Beacon ...

Seeking Mavis Beacon, by Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross, uncovers the truth behind a fictional cultural icon.

‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Pursues an Elusive Black Icon Reviewed at Digital Arts Screening Room, New York, Jan. 10, 2024. In Sundance Film Festival (NEXT).

Mavis Beacon taught millions to type. She was also fictional. Her legacy sparks a cinematic inquiry in Jazmin Renée Jones’s absorbing documentary.