At the beginning of a new year, we love to reflect on all of the accomplishments we have been blessed with, but most importantly think about what we can all improve on and continue to grow. Before we get into our 2018 New Year Resolutions for Moth to Flame, here are some of the goals we set to accomplish in 2017. Goals for 2017 – did we accomplish them? We focused on the following film production goals for 2017: Period piece content Episodic storytelling Shorter shorts.   Period Piece Content We have accomplished most of these goals, some better than...

We are officially a week into 2015, which is about the time statistics say people have already lost momentum towards the resolutions they made on new years day. To avoid falling into this pool, below are some tips to help you reach your goals.   Before all steps, write down your top goals and make yourself accountable by sharing it with as many people as you can. In our case, we like to broadcast our most important goals loudly, so that all of you can hold us accountable. Instead of saying what you aren’t going to do, create a list…

2014 Top 10 Moments at Moth to Flame Moth to Flame has a lot of great moments in 2014. Here are our top 10!     Top 10 1. Finishing Funemployment and submitting it to SXSW   2. Getting Top 5 at the Louisiana Film Prize for A Bird’s Nest   3. Blind Date Rules Short Film Coming soon 2015.   4. Making creative training videos for HP! 2014 5. Creating a series of videos for McCombs BBA classrooms and a series of web videos! All launching early 2015. 6. Raising a client’s (Modern Fuel) Kickstarter goal in one day.    ...

Thank you 2014…. The last few weeks before the new year is always a much needed time of reflection for me. In the world of entertainment and entrepreneurship, you experience two types of projects, the ones that come and go in a whirlwind or the ones you are stuck on for so long that you cannot see an end in sight. It is difficult in both cases to find time for reflection because while you are in the moment, all you can do is hold on and hope you come out alive emotionally and physically.   Running Moth to Flame…

It is with a heavy heart for me to write this blog about the passing of a former Moth to Flame intern, Daniel Thompson. I remember when Daniel first jumped on board with Moth to Flame. My first impression of him was wow, this guy is so excited to learn about filmmaking.   My first time meeting him was at a friend’s gathering during SXSW , when he mentioned that he wanted to get experience on set. He had just moved to Austin and was figuring out what he wanted to do. I could immediately see his hunger to learn…

Many people have asked us what it’s like to work at Moth to Flame. It is really difficult to describe because the things we do on a daily basis often fluctuates so much. Sometimes the interns come in and we just spend the entire time filming something fun, or we go on shoots, edit, and more. We decided to make a video this week to show you what shenanigans we have been up to.  

Though we work hard at Moth to Flame, we definitely have fun as well. To lead up to our kickstarter shoot for Origin of Cool to raise money for their new product (customizable Ping-Pong paddles), we decided to do our own tutorial on how to play Ping-Pong. Of course, who better to instruct everyone, than our fabulous team members, Kelsey Pribilski and Collin Snyder. Make sure to check out our previous posts as well about our new office!