Get the latest gossip
‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Pursues an Elusive Black Icon
An exciting part of Sundance’s NEXT program, Jazmin Jones' unconventional film chronicles a quest to find the face from a popular typing program.
Premiering in the NEXT section at Sundance, the format-defying film follows the nonbinary Black filmmaker on an elaborate search to find — but also to better understand — someone who shaped what they thought of the world and themselves. As past users of the bestselling software surely recall (but may never have consciously considered), Mavis Beacon was a Black woman — knowledgeable and warm, with a striking face and long, elegant fingernails — who encouraged young people to master their keyboard skills. Mavis Beacon’s face belonged to a Haitian woman named Renee L’Espérance, spotted behind the counter at a California department store.
Or read this on Variety