*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 ...

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 ...

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 Teaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...