Andrea F. Cannistraci, Esq.
Partner

Partner Andrea Cannistraci practices in the firm’s motion picture and television group, serving renowned writers, award winning producers and cutting-edge feature and documentary filmmakers, as well as major studios, leading cable networks and independent production companies.  In addition to providing all aspects of production legal services, Ms. Cannistraci’s practice includes the acquisition and development of underlying rights, as well as the financing, sales and distribution of motion pictures.  Her expertise extends to structuring the sale of film libraries, soundtrack album agreements and book-publishing contracts ancillary to motion pictures.  Ms. Cannistraci is dedicated to providing business acumen to both domestic and international clients and projects.

Within the entertainment community, she has worked to benefit emerging talent whether through non-profit grant-giving organizations such as the Creative Capital Foundation or as a panelist at industry conferences sponsored by such associations as the Independent Feature Project. Ms. Cannistraci regularly attends other industry events and festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival in support of her clients and has been influential in shaping the sale of several acclaimed films at such festivals.

In 1996, Ms. Cannistraci joined what was to become the partnership of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz and Weinstein.  Prior thereto, Ms. Cannistraci litigated complex tort cases with the Law Office of Sybil Shainwald and with the Law Firm of David Worby (presently Worby Groner & Edelman LLP).  After receiving her J.D. from St. John’s University, School of Law, she was admitted to the New York Bar and the US District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts.  She lives in Westchester with her husband and two young sons.