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Angelisa Castronovo

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Angelisa Castronovo

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Civil Procedural Law, Entertainment Law, Cinema and Audiovisual, International Commercial Contracts

Experience

Angelisa Castronovo is an attorney specialized in intellectual property, copyright and entertainment rights, contracts and negotiations. She assists several SMEs in the protection of their intellectual property rights, as well as numerous artists, film, television and theater production companies, international co-productions and the audiovisual sector in general, and Italian and foreign financial sponsors.

Angelisa also has considerable international experience. After graduating with honors with an experimental thesis on: “Work in the show. Film Law Issues”, she was awarded the “LUISS AMERIGO” postgraduate call for training in the USA and interned at: i) the "Business & Legal Affairs Department” of the film production company MediaFusion Entertainment based in Washington DC and New York and ii) the "International Investor" television and business channel based in Virginia.

In Italy, she worked as a trainee at RAI Cinema (legal sector) on a film project in collaboration with the company Cattleya, dealing with copyright and entertainment. Furthermore, she gained experience in film production working on the set of some films in Italy and abroad, as well as taking care of contracts and legal affairs.

In 2013 Angelisa obtained the qualification as European Trademark and Design Consultant at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development.
In 2018, she founded WellSee, a film and audiovisual production company that also deals with brand reputation and financial procurement.

Angelisa is also a lecturer in the field of film production and copyright at the Free University of Cinema in Rome and at several master-courses organized by Sole 24 Ore Business School, and collaborates with Altalex as tutor of the master-courses in "Entertainment Law", "Copyright" and "International Contracts".

Education

Master course in Entertainment Law
Master course in Copyright
Master course in International Contracts
Altalex, Rome 2009-2010

Law Degree, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, 2008

Angelisa is a member of the Bar Association of Rome since 2011 and she is also qualified in Spain since 2012

Languages

Italian, English