Dan Lin’s Rideback Launches Rideback Rise Accelerator Focused On Development Of BIPOC-Created Content

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Dan Lin’s production company Rideback, known for producing The Lego Movie and It franchises, such tentpoles as Disney’s Aladdin, and series television including The CW’s hit Walker, today announced the launch of Rideback Rise, a new non-profit accelerator that will support BIPOC writers, filmmakers and entrepreneurs in the development of film, television, digital and audio content.The Rideback Rise program will consist of two groups.

The first, known as the Rise Circle, will be a growing community of more than 500 diverse writers, filmmakers and creative talent supported through career-oriented programming and networking events.

The second, under the banner of the Rise Fellowship, will be a cohort of BIPOC creators and entrepreneurs selected each year for financial support in the development of market-ready film, television, digital and audio entertainment.While Rideback Rise will operate as a separate organization from the Rideback production entity, program participants will benefit from the association to Rideback, including the use of the Rideback Ranch creative campus and performance space in LA’s Historic Filipinotown and access to Rideback’s ongoing educational and networking events and programming.

Rise Fellows will receive a $50,000 annual stipend and are eligible to access an Intellectual Property Fund for underlying rights to material as well as a Visuals Fund to create presentations and reels for their projects.