Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Michaela A. Ternasky-Holland is a Peabody-nominated and Emmy award-winning director who specializes in creating impactful stories using immersive and interactive technologies. She is among the first directors to create and premiere a short film utilizing OpenAI’s Sora platform, which screened at the Tribeca Festival. Her first original animated series garnered over 2.2 million views on YouTube within a month of its release. Her prolific work in virtual reality animation has been recognized as Best Directing in XR by The Collision Awards, a VR Film of the Year finalist by the International VR Awards, and the Grand Prize at the Philippine Animation Festival. A nominee for the Producers Guild of America’s Innovation Award, she is also a consultant, speaker, and thought leader, recognized as one of the 100 Original Voices of XR and named among Blooloop’s 50 Immersive Influencers.