NEON recently announced they have signed on to produce the documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon, directed by Jazmin Jones.
Mavis Beacon was the most influential Black woman in technology right up until the day she vanished. Seeking Mavis Beacon will investigate the disappearance and reimagine the legacy of a missing Black woman who helped define the digital age.
NEON will produce alongside Guetty Felin, an award-winning independent filmmaker, teacher, film curator and co-founder of the multicultural film company BelleMoon Productions; and Co-Producer Olivia McKayla Ross.
“NEON has been a perfect home for this project. They understood our positionality as Black femmes and share our interest in disrupting traditional documentary form,” Jazmin Jones commented. “The trusting relationship we have with NEON has exceeded my expectations of the possibilities for a first time Black queer nonbinary filmmaker– it’s been a blessing.”
Jazmin Jones (Director) is a Brooklyn-based, Bay Area raised visual storyteller and thought leader with BUFU: By Us For Us. Her aim is to build 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, Black femme waging intimacy in the Post-Internet era. She’s been granted the Human and Civil Rights Award from the National Association of Education, the Fair Use Award from the Media That Matters Film Festival, a Civic Arts and Humanities Fellowship with the Flaherty Film Seminar and was recently featured in SFMoMa’s Raw Materials podcast. In 2015, Jazmin co-founded BUFU: a project-based collective interested in solidarity amongst Us, co-creating experimental models of organizing with You. The collective was awarded Eyebeam’s 2017 Trust Residency and are 2020 residents with the Brooklyn Community Foundation Incubator Project. Most recently, Jones was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s ’25 New Faces of Film’ in 2021.
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