Fire Starter Studios

11/26/2025

Happy Turkey Day! 🦃

10/21/2025

No traffic jams, no weather delays, just drive right into the stage for the perfect shot every time!

10/10/2025

While Congress stands in their respective corners holding their breath, while still collecting a paycheck. The rest of us are left dealing with the fallout.

Shutdowns don’t hurt the people causing the mess—they hurt the people actually doing the work.

See what Fire Starter Studios' CEO, Rachel Klein, and other small business owners have to say about it in this Wall Street Journal article.

The U.S. government shutdown is disrupting business as usual in many ways—and reinforcing just how many private-sector operations depend on a federal bureaucracy humming on all cylinders. For example: An Alameda, Calif., medical-device company postponed a planned spinoff, unable to pursue regulat

10/06/2025

🎉Exciting news! Rachel Klein and Donnelle Fuller's script "The Thorns" has been named a Semifinalist in the 2025 Film Freeway Best Script Awards – Autumn Edition.

Way to go! 👏👏👏

10/01/2025

🎥Ready when you are. Black Box production stage, rooms for make-up 💄, wardrobe👗, production offices... we've got it all.

09/26/2025

This , we’re revisiting one of our favorite animation campaigns for Better Help. 🎨✨ For this series of videos, we got to explore a moody, cinematic style of animation that we absolutely love—every frame crafted like a graphic-novel panel.

Expression, body language, light, and shadow all work together to tell a story so powerful you don’t need words to understand it.

Here’s a glimpse at some of the images created across the multiple videos in this campaign—projects that remind us why we love visual storytelling and why we’re excited for what’s coming next.

In celebration of our 10th anniversary, this is a glimpse at some of the images from one of our favorite animation campaigns featuring graphic-novel style an...

09/16/2025

"Independent to me was a very American word... a word that got this country started. And it was a word I kind of leaned on my whole life… I wanted to be able to be free to be experimental." ~ Robert Redford

That belief became the foundation for the Sundance Institute, which redefined what was possible in cinema. As the world pauses to remember Robert Redford, an artist, a visionary, and a trailblazer, we recall a man who didn’t just champion independent film—he built the ecosystem where it could thrive.

We were privileged to meet and interview him for our United States of Arts series in an episode completely devoted to his groundbreaking Sundance Institute. https://youtu.be/4XDOXDiD5H4

Discovering the role that the National Endowment for the Arts played in the founding of the landmark Sundance Institute. Featuring: Robert Redford, Pat Mitch...

09/12/2025

It really is, "An Honor Just to be Nominated!"
In celebration of the Emmys this weekend, our is a look back at the years we were nominated for our documentary series "United States of Arts!"

Here's to the 2025 nominees🥂! Celebrate your achievements and have fun! It's a great party to be invited to.

Thank you again to the amazing team at Fire Starter Studios, the National Endowment for the Arts, and every artist and arts organization who allowed us to tell your stories!

09/10/2025

A little fog 🌫️ + light bounce + 💡 = on screen magic! 🎥🪄

09/04/2025

A dolly track a day keeps the bumps away. 🎥

08/29/2025

It's time for another to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. This week the spotlight is on Appalshop

We were thrilled to celebrate the filmmakers, artists, musicians, and educators who have been supporting and uplifting their appalachian community for over 50 years!

These artists, the films they've created, and the work they do in and around Whitesburg, Kentucky inspires us to this day!

What are your favorite local arts organizations making an impact?

This short form visual piece depicts the lasting impact of a group of young documentary filmmakers who in 1969 dedicated their skills and training within the...