Cory McLeod

Creative technologist Cory McLeod is based in Minneapolis, US. He makes XR experiences, apps, motion graphics, sites, and new media prototypes for brands, new business pitches, and personal art projects with Unity, C#, Blender, JavaScript, After Effects, Arduino, and hand drawings. But mainly, Cory tells stories.

Cory McLeod will be speaking at the Digital Exhibitions Summit 2026 :

Žanis. A multi-plot documentary made for virtual reality

Žanis Lipke was a Latvian dockworker who rescued over 50 people from the Nazis during the Holocaust. “Hanna’s Story” is the first chapter of the project. It tells the story of Hanna Stern, who was six years old when she was deported from Berlin to the Riga Ghetto in Latvia with her mother and older brother Philip. After Philip was killed during the Ghetto’s Liquidation, Hanna and her mother were transferred to the Kaiserwald Concentration Camp. Hanna’s mother made contact with Žanis, who staged a complex escape operation, hiding them in a countryside bunker until the end of the Holocaust.