Erika Canchola

Partner




  • Profile
  • Select Clients and Projects
  • Awards/Recognitions
  • Credentials

In her leadership of production legal for such breakout works as 2022’s “A Man Called Otto” and recent festival films “If You Were the Last,” “Prisoner’s Daughter” and “Something in the Dirt” as well as Skydance’s “Reacher,” “Foundation,” and “The Big Door Prize,” Partner Erika Canchola optimizes her clients’ financial, legal and business position in the financing, production and exploitation of their content.

Erika serves as outside production counsel for Skydance Television and is currently advising several producers of short- and long-form content slated for theatrical, television and new media platforms.


Capabilities

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


Highlights

Erika is the calm center during fast-paced productions, addressing issues that arise in prep, shooting and post-production. Highlights of her recent client work include:

  • Served as production counsel for 2022 TIFF selections “Butcher’s Crossing” and “Prisoner’s Daughter,” and 2023 SXSW selections “If You Were the Last” with Anthony Mackie & Zoe Chao and Apple TV+’s “The Big Door Prize”


Select Production and Finance Clients

  • Skydance Television
  • Hello Sunshine
  • Reserve Entertainment
  • Yale Entertainment
  • Rumble Films
  • The Jim Henson Company
  • Paradise City
  • Rustic Films

Select TV and Film Projects and Deals

  • "The Big Door Prize,” 2023-Present
  • “If You Were the Last,” 2023 SXSW selection
  • "A Man Called Otto,” upcoming
  • “Butcher’s Crossing,” 2022 TIFF selection
  • “Prisoner’s Daughter,” 2022 TIFF selection
  • “Reacher,” 2022-Present
  • “Foundation,” 2021-Present
  • “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” 2022-Present
  • "Something in the Dirt,” 2022 Sundance selection
  • “Happily,” 2020 Tribeca selection
  • “Arkansas,” 2020 SXSW selection
  • “Four Good Days,” 2020 Sundance
  • “The Americans,” 2013-2018, 2019 Golden Globe winner
  • “Grace and Frankie,” 2015-2022
  • “Damsel,” 2018
  • “Hearts Beat Loud,” 2018 Sundance selection
  • “Fun Mom Dinner,” 2017
  • “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” 2015
  • “Ride,” 2015
  • “Fury,” 2014
  • “Short Term 12,” 2013

Film Financing

  • "Sanctuary,” 2022 TIFF selection
  • "On the Line,” 2022
  • "Wild Indian,” 2021 Sundance selection
  • "Fatman,” 2020
  • “Ashes in the Snow,” 2018
  • “All Creatures Here Below,” 2018
  • “Small Crimes,” 2017
  • “Teenage Cocktail,” 2016
  • “The Driftless Area,” 2015
  • “Kidnapping Mr. Heineken,” 2015
  • “Still Alice,” 2014
  • “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” 2013

Awards/Recognitions

Affiliations

  • Professional Entertainment Female Attorneys (PEFA)

Bar Admissions

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

Education

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