2026 Winners

American Amazon, Episode 1 - Hidden Forests

Competition : Docu competition
Category : Ecotourism and sustainable travel
Country : Austria
Sponsor : Terra Mater Studios GmbH
Producer : Terra Mater Studios GmbH
Director : Eric Bendick
Lenght : 00:52:27
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This is a journey into the last secret wilderness in North America. An ancient bastion of life anchored in place by two-thousand-year-old cypress trees. A labyrinth of flooded forests and pulsing arteries. A place buzzing with new stories: from the mass migration of the world's only social raptor, the swallow-tailed kite, to the dazzling spectacle of the ghost orchid. A world where big mysteries still tread around every corner of the swamp: the cryptic behavior of the American black bear, the silent footsteps of the Florida panther. Here, in the wet and wild American South, is a place we call the AMERICAN AMAZON – a hotspot of biodiversity rivaling anywhere on Earth – and yet somehow its stories have never been told. © TERRA MATER STUDIOS GMBH 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Everyone who has a genuine interest, passion and connection to Wildlife/ Nature/ Science Documentaries produced because #terramatters

This is a journey into the last secret wilderness in North America. An ancient bastion of life anchored in place by two-thousand-year-old cypress trees. A labyrinth of flooded forests and pulsing arteries. A place buzzing with new stories: from the mass migration of the world's only social raptor, the swallow-tailed kite, to the dazzling spectacle of the ghost orchid. A world where big mysteries still tread around every corner of the swamp: the cryptic behavior of the American black bear, the silent footsteps of the Florida panther. Here, in the wet and wild American South, is a place we call the AMERICAN AMAZON – a hotspot of biodiversity rivaling anywhere on Earth – and yet somehow its stories have never been told. © TERRA MATER STUDIOS GMBH 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED