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‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Filmmaker Jazmin Jones On Documenting Black Identity In The Digital Age
Filmmaker Jazmin Jones talks to Deadline about making the documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon
In Seeking Mavis Beacon, filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross aim to track down one of the most iconic figures in multicultural education and internet history. DEADLINE: When I watched this documentary, I started to think about the situation that occurred with Henrietta Lacks; this Black woman in the 1950s essentially had her blood cell samples taken from her and used for various medical testing without her knowledge before she passed or her family’s consent for decades. Henrietta Lacks is someone who it was like, “Ah, if I could just find a way to shoehorn this into the film…” So I’m glad to hear that you’re connecting that dot because that is someone I do think of in the lineage of Mavis Beacon and the $500 difference.
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