Danny and Sean met at a holiday dinner in December 2025 and immediately hit it off. Danny, a lifelong history enthusiast, started telling Sean about his work with the Comanche community and an idea he could not shake. With the tools that exist now, what would it take to bring incredible stories, cultures and moments in history to life in ways that simply were not possible before?
One conversation turned into hundreds, experiments became projects, and somewhere along the way Firewood Studios was born. Formed with one goal: make really good visual storytelling accessible to more people, and have a ton of fun doing it.
Sean Rubin
Sean Rubin runs the content and media. He has always loved stories and art and creativity and has been making movies since fourth grade. Some of his favorites are Whiplash, Children of Men, The Florida Project and Marty Supreme.
Sean was born a creative. He studied film and TV at UCLA, NYFA, UNCSA and NYU. After graduating he went on to create a variety of films and promotional work, including leading the launch film for a congressional campaign and running the campaign for the first sanctioned MMA event ever held in Times Square.
Sean loves to hang out with friends, watch movies and travel. He is on a career path to write and direct for film full time.
Daniel Rizza
Daniel Rizza brings Sean’s magic to market: studio operations, commercial vision, partnerships, capital and he sprinkles in, a wee bit of conventional creativity. Like, but not like Sean, he’s a creative, just not on the page or behind the camera. His medium is the deal: seeing opportunity where others don’t, connecting people and ideas, and finding the path that turns something compelling into something viable.
Danny was born an entrepreneur. He graduated in 2008, starting work at Ernst & Young two days after the financial crisis began. He spent nine years cutting his teeth in institutional finance before transitioning to real estate capital markets and investments, where he got to flex his creativity. He has been starting businesses ever since, drawn to new ideas, emerging technologies and the challenge of figuring out how to bring them into the real world.
Danny loves to hike, travel, entrepreneur, and spend time with friends, family and his dog, his little boy, Otis.
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