Elsa Ramo Founding Partner RAMO LAW PC

Elsa Ramo is an established entertainment attorney, representing producers, financiers, and production entities in film, television, and digital content. She graduated from University of San Diego School of Law in 2002, and began her career by establishing the Los Angeles office for Davis Dixon Kirby LLP (a royalty litigation firm). After several clients approached her to handle their independent productions, she founded her own firm on the Universal Studios backlot in 2005. Ramo Law PC is now located in Beverly Hills.

Her law firm has seven full time attorneys, a packaging and sales executive, and a full staff who provides production, distribution and finance legal services in feature films, documentaries, scripted and unscripted television and digital content. Their television credits include series on Crackle, MTV, Netflix, Hulu, and Bravo. Some recent film credits include: STILL ALICE (Julianne Moore, 2015 Best Actress Oscar™ Winner), FURY (Brad Pitt), STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT (Billy Crudup) which won an award at Sundance this year, STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA (Saoirse Ronan), SHORT TERM 12 (Brie Larsen), and the upcoming WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS (Zac Efron).

She represents such producers as: Informant Media (CRAZY HEART, STUCK IN LOVE, and KIDNAPPING FREDDY HEINEKEN with Anthony Hopkins), QED International (I, ALEX CROSS with Tyler Perry, SABOTAGE with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and FURY with Brad Pitt), Scott Mednick (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES and 300), and Electric City Films (LITTLE BIRDS and MISSISSIPPI GRIND). Elsa Ramo also produced GHOST GAME and CULT (Taryn Manning) and co-produced IN NORTHWOOD (Nick Stahl and Olivia Wilde) and HECKLER (Jamie Kennedy).

Her expertise has been featured in numerous outlets, including Indiewire’s Women to Watch, The Daily Journal, The Wrap, Forbes, and Latino Weekly. Additionally, she has lectured about entertainment law and the film and television industry for the California Lawyers for the Arts, Film Independent, LawReviewCLE, and the Institute for International Film Financing.

She has been a panel and guest speaker at USC, AFI, UCLA, the Produced By Conference, South by Southwest Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, San Diego Film Festival, Digital Hollywood, Boston University School of Law, and the University of San Diego Law School. In May 2010, she was awarded an Artistic License Award along with Maria Shriver by California Lawyers for the Arts for her outstanding pro-bono work providing artists and arts organizations with legal services. In October 2014, she was listed in Variety’s 2014 Women Impact Report.

Outside of membership in four Bar Associations (California, American, Beverly Hills, & Los Angeles), Elsa is also a member of Film Independent, Women in Film, California Lawyers for the Arts and is the founder of PEFA (a professional organization for female attorneys in the entertainment industry).

She lives in Santa Monica with her husband and son.

More information about Elsa Ramo and her staff can be found on her company website: www.ramolawpc.com. ANNOTATION GUIDE

Annotated scripts should contain for each script element, whether an event, setting, character or section of dialogue within scene, notes in the margin which provide the following information:

I. Characters: For each character:

(a) Whether the character is real, fictional or composite.

(b) For real characters, whether the actual person is living or dead (if living, whether a release has been signed), and whether the name has been changed.