Akmyrat Tuyliyev MIT Open Documentary Lab

Akmyrat Tuyliyev is a producer at MIT Open Documentary Lab and a Visiting Assistant Professor at ASU’s Master’s in Narrative and Emerging Media program in Los Angeles, CA.

His VR documentary “1991” was part of the Venice Biennale College Cinema VR, IDFA DocLab Forum, and NewImages Festival XR Market. Akmyrat has produced and directed new media experiences showcased by the United Nations, The History Channel, Made in NY Media Center by IFP, and Frank Gehry’s IAC Building Video Wall. Akmyrat served as an interactive producer at PBS’s POV Spark, where he produced Instagram documentary series Otherly in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada (Webby Nominee 2022), Alexa, Call Mom! (Tribeca 2020) and Atomu VR (Sundance 2020). He also produced Snapchat AR lenses for Nike, Coca-Cola, Disney and more.

He taught immersive and interactive storytelling at Interactive Media Arts program at NYU Tisch and Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab.