Maria-Christine Rieder (née Gatterer)

Creativity and accuracy: for Maria the two are not mutually exclusive. As Head of Legal at Terra Mater Studios she is dealing with all kind of legal issues raised during development, production and distribution of all formats, TV documentaries and feature films.

Before joining TMS, Maria headed the legal and business affairs division of Content Sales International at ORF-Enterprise, a subsidiary of ORF, the Austrian public service broadcaster. Managing the exploitation ORF content as well as third-party content she handled all kinds of agreements. Prior to that she worked in a copyright law office in Munich, while a variety of projects have taken her from New York to Moscow.