Maria Wilhelm is the executive director of the Avatar Alliance Foundation and president & COO of CAMERON Companies. She executive-produced the earth-conscious documentaries The Game Changers for Netflix, the Emmy-winning climate-change series Years of Living Dangerously for Showtime and National Geographic, and James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction for AMC. Moving into the director’s chair for Akashinga: The Brave Ones, she told the story of an elite troop of women protecting elephants in Zimbabwe.