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Feature Documentary

Seeking Mavis Beacon

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The most recognizable woman in technology lives in our collective imagination. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software’s Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Seeking Mavis Beacon follows two DIY detectives as they search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence.

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Directors Spotlight



A picture of a young woman named Jazmin Renée Jones against a warm, soft, brownish-orange background. She has curly, medium-length hair that transitions from dark brown at the roots to a vivid orange midway down, adorned with several small hairpins. She is looking directly at the camera with a calm yet slightly intense expression. She wears large, thin, gold hoop earrings, and a deep red garment draped around her right shoulder.

Jazmin Renée Jones

Director

Jazmin Jones is a Brooklyn-based, Bay Area raised visual storyteller, archivist, and organizer. Her aim is to create platforms for more vibrant and nuanced representation of the marginalized communities she’s a part of. Working across visual mediums, her projects often echo personal experiences as a queer, nonbinary Black femme waging intimacy in the Post-Internet era. In 2021, Filmmaker Magazine listed Jazmin as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She’s been in fellowship with organizations like Sundance, The Flaherty, and Eyebeam and her work has been written about in publications like The New York Times, Frieze, Hyperallergic, and Vice. In 2015, Jazmin co-founded BUFU:By Us For Us; a project-based collective interested in solidarity amongst “Us”, co-creating experimental models of organizing with “You”. In the span of five years, the collective facilitated 400+ free events centering QTPOC both IRL and online, and was named Best Art Collective Promoting P.O.C. Solidarity by the Village Voice. Jazmin’s current feature length hybrid documentary, Seeking Mavis Beacon, is in co-production with Neon. When she isn’t investigating the disappearance of Mavis Beacon with Olivia McKayla Ross, she unwinds by archiving Black delight on instagram @allBlackASMR.







  • Runtime 103 minutes
  • Country United States
  • Language English
  • Director Jazmin Renée Jones
  • Premiere Philadelphia





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