WALTER KOEHLER is founder and CEO of the internationally acclaimed Terra Mater Factual Studios, based in Vienna/Austria. He looks back on almost 35 successful years in the film business, nonfiction as well as narrative. In 2011, Koehler launched his production company Terra Mater Factual Studios, and since then, he has gained international recognition with approximately 300 international film awards, including several Panda Awards at Wildscreen and Grand Teton Awards at the Jackson Wild Media Awards. The feature doc ‘Sea of Shadows’ won the prestigious Audience Award at Sundance Festival and is positioned to be one of the most successful impact films to date, catalyzing action on a broad international political scale. Terra Mater Factual Studios continues to strengthen the integral part of its vision by producing films that show a unique and very fragile part of Mother Earth and help bring about change.