Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...

The new documentary "Seeking Mavis Beacon" dives into the story of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program first developed in the late 1980s. (Courtesy of Neon) The new documentary "Seeking ...

In one of the more complex entries of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, filmmaker Jazmin Renée Jones’ “hybrid documentary,” Seeking Mavis Beacon, uses the education program to examine the digital ...

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 ...

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” is a documentary about (stick with me here) seeking Mavis Beacon. But, what it is not (and stick with me here, too) is a documentary about finding Mavis Beacon. Because whether ...

Seeking Mavis Beacon raises questions about AI, ethical storytelling, and the importance of informed consent. The film, directed by Jazmin Jones and co-produced by Olivia McKayla Ross, investigates ...

Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross' "Seeking Mavis Beacon," distributed by Neon, examines how a Haitian-born woman went from behind a sales counter in Los Angeles to becoming an AI-made likeness and ...

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 ...

The new documentary “Seeking Mavis Beacon” dives into the story of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program first developed in the late 1980s. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...