Howdy Partner: How Rideback Rise Aims to Nurture Creators of Color
variety.comCynthia Littleton Business Editor How do you change a culture? Influence the storytellers. That’s the vision that drives the work of Rideback Rise, the nonprofit organization founded by producer Dan Lin to provide support to creators of color.
On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Diana Mogollón, the newly appointed CEO of Rideback Rise, details the annual fellowship program run by Rideback Rise as well as the many mentoring and networking events held at its Rideback Ranch facility in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipintown neighborhood near Silver Lake.
The work and communal spaces were built out three years ago in an abandonded post office on Beverly Boulevard that Lin and partners outfitted as prime creative space.
Mogollón explains that Rideback Rise’s fellowship program is focused on providing career boosters for creatives who have some experience but need the luxury of time and focus to take their work to the next level. “To help mid-level creators is very specific, because that’s the point where creators — whether from film or television — they’ve been staffed in rooms or they’ve already directed some shorts.
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