The film shot in Estonia in English is the first feature film by the Harvard graduate Peeter Rebane, who also studied at the University of South-California.

Rebane wrote the script together with Tom Prier and coproduced the film through The Factory, a company he founded with Adam Brummond, in coproduction with London-based No Reservations Entertainment. The film was supported under the Estonian Film Institute’s Film Estonia cash rebate scheme.

Firebird depicts a love triangle between two men and a woman in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War, and it stars Tom Prier, Oleg Zagorodnii and Diana Pozharskaya.