Philip E.

SUMMARY Entertainment Attorney with extensive experience in the development, production, distribution and financing of both studio and independent theatrical motion pictures, serving as a business affairs executive at major and mini-major studios (Columbia ,Warner Bros and Relativity) and several independent production companies (Scott Free, Tribeca Productions, Douglas-Reuther Productions and Endgame Entertainment), performing both business and legal functions, handling short and long form documentation on above-the-line, below-the-line and rights transactions. EXPERIENCE Law Office of Philip Elway Attorney/Owner/2003-2021  Represented producers, directors, actors, documentary filmmakers, animators, financiers, domestic and foreign sales companies and production companies. Clients included VIP Medienfonds (German tax fund), ReelFX (animation), Endgame Entertainment, Aperture Media Partners (financiers), Scott Free Productions, Wild Bunch, Douglas Reuther Productions (Michael Douglas), Bel-Air Entertainment (Warner Bros), Tribeca Productions (Robert DeNiro), Aldamisa Entertainment, Sun Distribution and Relativity Media.  Included development and production related agreements, financing agreements, distribution agreements, director agreements, producer agreements, writer agreements, rights agreements, actor agreements, domestic and international sales agreements, interparty agreements, loan agreements, special effects agreements, CAM agreements, bond and security agreements. I provided my services at times exclusively and, at other times, non-exclusively to a single production or client. During this period, I executive produced eleven feature films. Bel-Air Entertainment Executive Vice President/1997-2003 Company was a joint venture between Warners and Canal Plus of France and produced 9 theatrical motion pictures. Responsible for all business and legal affairs of the company, working in concert with Warner Business Affairs. Columbia Pictures Vice-President, Business Affairs/1991-1997 Negotiated all development, production and distribution matters on a high volume of film projects. EDUCATION Juris Doctor from Southwestern University School of Law B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2001