Chad Russo joined RAMO 2014 upon his graduation from Loyola Law School Los Angeles, after having worked as an intern for the firm since 2013. Formerly, he worked for Sony Pictures Entertainment and interned with The Walt Disney Company and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. 

Russo counsels production and distribution for companies such as Unified Pictures and Citizen Jones, and has worked on films such as Fury and Dragged Across Concrete, but his specialty at the firm is his focus on developing emerging media. 

Russo has represented podcast producers and creators for critically acclaimed podcasts such as Limetown, The Wilderness, Black List, and Guys We F***ed, with associated companies such as Crooked Media, Luminary, Ninth Planet, Paragon Collective, and Action Park Media. 

Highlights 

• 2023 Tribeca premiere Somewhere Quiet 
• 2023 SXSW features Frybread Face and Me, Scrambled, and The Wrath of Becky 
• 2023 Sundance premiere Fairyland starring Emilia Jones 
• 2022 Tribeca films Cherry and A Wounded Fawn 
• 2022 SXSW films The Cow with Winona Ryder and Hypochondriac 
• 2022 Sundance films Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul starring Regina Hall & Sterling K. Brown and Downfall: The Case Against Boeing 

Select Clients and Projects

Production & Distribution Legal 

CJ Entertainment  

• Press Play, 2022 

Thank You Brain! Productions 

• Those Who Can’t, 2016-2019, Max 

1inMM Productions   

• American Carnage, 2022 
• Trunk 
• Double Barrel 
• Curvature, 2017 

BoulderLight Pictures 

• The Cow, 2022 SXSW 
• Wild Indian, 2021 Sundance 
• Doors, 2021 
• The Vigil, 2019 
• Citizen Jones 
• How to Become a Tyrant, 2021 
• The Nod with Brittany & Eric, 2020-2021, Quibi 
• T-Pain’s School of Business, 2018-Present, Fuse 

Unified Pictures, Inc. 

• Running Out of Dog, upcoming 
• Rothchild, upcoming 
• Dragged Across Concrete, 2018, starring Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn 
• What they Had, 2018 
• The Sifre Group 
• Ana, 2020 
• Driven, 2018 
• Pure Flix Entertainment 
• The Beverlys, 2019 
• Mood Swings, 2019 
• Little Women, 2018 
• Malibu Dan The Family Man, 2017 

Indy Entertainment 

• Happily, 2020 Tribeca 
• Model Citizen, 2020 
• Literally, Right Before Aaron, 2017 

Mucho Mas Media 

• Another Day Without A Mexican, upcoming 
• Animation studios Echo Bridge Pictures and Glow in the Dark Concept Studio 

Pinky Promise 

• Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, 2022 Sundance 

Podcast Counsel   

Crooked Media 

• The Wilderness, 2018-Present, seasons 1 and 2  
• Pod Save America, 2017-Present, iHeartRadio Podcast Award ‘news’ nominee  
• Limetown, 2015-2018 

Philanthropy Gal, Inc. and Krystyna Hutchinson Productions  

• Guys We F****d, 2014-Present  

Ninth Planet  

• Black List, 2020 
• Telephone Stories, 2019 

The Paragon Collective  

• I Don’t Know About That with Jim Jefferies, 2020-Present 
• Deadly Manners, 2017 
• The NoSleep Podcast, 2011-Present 
• Wellness and Other Crimes 

Campfire Film & TV  

• Abuse of Power, 2020-Present  

Action Park Media  

• American Glutton, 2020-Present 
• Pretty Depressed, 2020-Present 
• The Festival Rules, 2020 

EARIOS 

Mama Bear Studios  

• “Monster,” 2021-Present 

Bar Admissions 

• State Bar of California

Education  

• Loyola Law School Los Angeles, J.D. 
• California State University Channel Islands, B.S. in Business and B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude