Partner Erika Canchola is the calm center during fast-paced productions. She leads the finance team at RAMO, leveraging her experience across corporate formations, copyright filings, and production financing. She optimizes her clients’ business position in the financing, production and exploitation of their content. Her recent festival successes include 2024 Cannes competition film Oh, Canada and 2024 Toronto International Film Festival premiere Eden as well as Skydance’s Reacher, Foundation, and FUBAR. Erika represents The Jim Henson Company and serves as outside production counsel for Skydance Television. Canchola additionally advises several producers of short- and long-form content slated for theatrical, television and new media platforms.  

Canchola has been recognized in Variety’s Legal Impact Report, Variety’s Dealmakers Report, and most recently by Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s. 

Capabilities 

• Film financing 
• Corporate formations 
• Copyright filings 
• Contract negotiations 
• Production financing and producing legal for producers, productions and other clients 

Highlights  

• Served as production counsel for Oh, Canada which premiered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and Eden which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. 
• Served as consultant and US production counsel for The Room Next, winner of the Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival and Sharp Corners which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. 

Select Production and Finance Clients 

• Skydance Television  
• Reserve Entertainment 
• Renegade Capital 
• Badlands Production 
• The Jim Henson Company 
• Starburns Industries 
• Rustic Films 

Recent Select TV and Film Projects and Deals 

• The Room Next Door, 2024 
• Oh, Canada, 2024 
• Eden, 2024 
• You Gabba GabbaLand!, 2024-present, Apple TV+ 
• The Big Door Prize, 2023-2024, Apple TV+ 
• If You Were the Last, 2023 
• FUBAR, 2023-present, Netflix 
• A Man Called Otto, 2022 
• Reacher, 2022-Present, Amazon 
• Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, 2022-Present, Apple TV+ 
• Something in the Dirt, 2022 
• Sanctuary, 2022 
• On the Line, 2022 
• Grace and Frankie, 2015-2022, Netflix 
• Foundation, 2021-Present, Apple TV+ 
• Wild Indian, 2021 
• Arkansas, 2020 
• Four Good Days, 2020 
• Fatman, 2020

Recent Awards & Recognitions 

• “Legal Impact Report,” Variety, 2023 
• “Leaders of Influence: 2022 – Thriving in Their 40s,” Los Angeles Business Journal, 2022 
• “Legal Impact Report,” Variety, 2022 
• “Dealmakers Impact Report,” Variety, 2020 
• “Legal Impact Report,” Variety, 2020 

Affiliations 

• Professional Entertainment Female Attorneys (PEFA)

Bar Admissions 

• State Bar of California 
• The District of Columbia Bar 
• New York State Bar 

Education 

• Boston University School of Law, J.D.
• Santa Clara University, B.S.