Film Pocket Knife Pictures

28/10/2024

Made Five Camera Tests on iPhone 16 Pro Max:

Focal Length Test Footage For Sanctuary Dream II and III.Patreon Link: patreon.com/filmpocketknifepictures

12/10/2024

iPhone 16 Pro Max Focal Length Style Test (Coen Brothers):

Wrote the music too. Patreon Link: patreon.com/filmpocketknifepictures

11/10/2024

Sanctuary Dream II and III's Cinematography needs to look as good as this. (I made these photos, but I may not be able to be the primary Cinematographer).

10/10/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMkga8-se0c

Soft focus on objects. The test was for focal lengths and how they change the look. Patreon: patreon.com/filmpocketknifepictures

09/10/2024

A Focal Length Guide for iPhone 16 Pro Max

09/10/2024

Made a funny iPhone 16 Pro Max in-Camera Spatial Audio Test:

Exactly what the title claims. Please excuse the wonky color grading experimentation. Also, this is an in-camera audio test; not a test on just how good I c...

24/07/2024

Paid Help Wanted: Concept Artists for $100 per Drawing -- with up to four revisions.

12/07/2024

Hello Everyone. This announcement is for a charity fundraiser event called Summer of Hope in Malibu, California.

At 3 PM Today, Pacific Time (4 PM in Utah, 5 PM in Wisconsin, and 6 PM in Atlanta, Georgia), My Friend, Kevan Michaels, will be playing music with, in his own words --- "with the singer, harmonica, and sax player from Canned Heat on harmonica; with Raanen Bozzio, son of one of the world's greatest drummers on drums; with Brian Ochab on piano -- He plays for Robby Krieger of The Doors and Carl Cliver and Donzo Helverson, who are famous session guys and played for almost everyone. The female background vocalist is a friend and a great singer."

If you can, please join us for a free concert, streaming on the internet through this link, at 3 PM Pacific Time Today.

https://houseofhopesp.org/livestream/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0tDrMNJpKwwfK1zhIceGgk1ng9mB5eJ_oF-e_SqI2aMV3KMmI8JD20vsw_aem_A8IhgzZo0Ma5RjVvhaBE-AThe

01/06/2024

The Community has begun on Reddit:

This Community is for The Autism Simulation Trilogy that started with the film, Sanctuary Dream. For further information, please check out the links from the first post.

01/06/2024

Now this is how you do a Kickstarter:

The definitive hardcover collections of the original G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comics!

29/05/2024

In Any Business. What do we do? We Pivot, We Pivot, We Pivot.

What Do Concept Artists Do? Revise, Revise, Revise.

PAID HELP WANTED -- Concept Artists.

$100 Dollars per Painting; Must include up to 4 revisions.

21/05/2024

So, I got the Avatar: Way Of Water Collector's Edition 4k Bluray that was released a few months ago. I saw the additional 15 minutes of violence that the director said he wanted to cut out of the film. I agree with 13 of those minutes being cut out. However, NONE of this "Parents From Hell" sequence should have been cut out, after everything that happened in the movie before this (Not Spoiling):

The Parents That Are From Hell ! Deleted Movie 🎥🍿🎬 Scene 🌊💧🌴🏝️🔫💪🏾🦋💙🥶🐬🐳 + Editor - Gregory JohnsonDP - Gregory Joh...

14/05/2024

Happy 10th Anniversary Old Friend:

Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/filmpocketknifepicturesA Modified Version Of My 1st Independent Short (Differences: change of title sequences, alternat...

12/05/2024

For this Mother's Day, I am sharing this Documentary a friend of mine, Alston Crosby, made. Politics aside, The Holocaust is not something we should repeat historically:

Special thanks to Steve & June Volk youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYZVp6fOzXIMDfQIB-NsSJzex7OUufgvv&si=Pc9WOt8c7Z2vzGCx

01/05/2024

Anyone think I'm using Instagram Correctly?
Or are there better ways???

https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarydream9/reels/

19/04/2024

Here is the link to a Pre-Film Press Kit on Film Freeway. Development ends in June: [https://lnkd.in/gvNb9xKA](https://lnkd.in/gvNb9xKA)

01/04/2024

Hey Guys, does anyone think this would be a good April Fools Joke?

Five years ago, I made an Autism Simulation Movie called Sanctuary Dream.

In 2021, the festivals chose Sia's Music over my film, despite my film being a far more accurate portrayal of what it's like to be Autistic.

So the April Fools Joke is. Shall we tell Sia to atone for her sins against Autism? By producing the Two Sequels I'm almost finished writing???

Sia produced the Panned Music. I produced the Underground Hit Sanctuary Dream. Spread the word, and Sia Could produce the Sanctuary Sequels.

Happy Autism Awareness Month Everyone!

09/10/2022

For those that need humor today:

LINK TO THE MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/lHPl_XCvmeEshoutout malek & grant!!! they worked super hard on it :)

07/10/2022

By Adrian Perez

Sanctuary Dream's the imperfect masterpiece; magnetising empathy, enormous depth, unquestionable good taste, and cinephilic expertise are the more prominent brush strokes in Grant Carsten's groundbreaking experimental canvas that puts us at the forefront of autistic neurology from the get-go. Carsten follows in the footsteps of master storytellers Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, 2014) and Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, 2010) in delivering his script through an immersive multi-sensory spectatorial experience to depict Faisal's autistic interiority and self-betraying mental and perceptual realm. The results are off the charts, Carsten embellishes cinematographic intimacy and realism, editorial compression and jump cuts, and radical use of colour to create a Rodriguezian stylistic hysteria (Planet Terror, 2007) as an accurate tool to simulate Faisal's neurology, making this a bumpy ride that will have you at the edge of your seat. If Faisal's inner battle wasn't enough, he has a dysfunctional environment to navigate, which pushes us over the edge even more into Tarantinian graphic violence and brutalism. Excessive style and story substance meet at a psychoanalytic intersection to make a highly structuralist and avant-garde experience; Carsten's 10,000 hours of cinephilic study and expertise show and make him one of the most invigorating emerging new film directors of the year. It's hard to digest that this is a feature-length directorial debut, and if that's impressive enough, Carsten does the ultimate mic drop in showing the world he's an autistic film director himself. Carsten's journey to the cinematic screen will empower and inspire many. Raw, uneasy, brutal, this film watch's on steroids to depict how quickly autism can shoot you from 0 to 1,000. Sanctuary Dream's the very epitomy that talented directors don't need much to create what I believe one day will be a cult classic. Grade A

My feature film which took from March 2017 to August 2018 to complete, and had a limited theatrical release from October 26th to December 22nd, 2018. The fea...

09/10/2021

The Newest Review of Sanctuary Dream: https://filmdaily.co/indie-film/sanctuary-dream/

'Sanctuary Dream' is a feature film that gives its audience the experience of living with autism. Discovery Grant Carsten's groundbreaking feature film.

03/10/2021

Florence Review:
https://florencefilmawards.com/reviews3 -e21e-4e28-bce8-a486b3283599

Florence Interview:
https://florencefilmawards.com/interviews-3 -6261-4619-8130-53b24f2f2f45

Here’s the most absolute ingredient to be a good Actor - Express your unspoken thoughts through non verbal behavior.  This  means that before your say your lines, feel the mood, think what your  character is thinking and let their thoughts speak through your eyes and  body.  

17/09/2021

Festival News for Today,...

15/09/2021

BPISFF Awards (Out of 7,000 Films)

1. Won Best Actor - Traven Thomas as Faisal Ost

2. Won Best First Time Director - Grant Carsten

3. Won Best Director of Shorts - Grant Carsten

4. Won Best Editor - Grant Carsten as Samuel Morgan

5. Won Best Trailer/Teaser - Greg Foltynowicz

6. Semi-Finalist Best Actress - Kristin Grismore as Julia Ost, Faisal's Mother

7. Semi-Finalist Best Producer(s) - Kendeyl Johansen, Kristen Gould Case, Cheryl Dejno, Grant Carsten, and Jim Hutt.

8. Semi-Finalist Best Screenplay - Grant Carsten

9. Semi-Finalist Best Soundtrack - Grant Carsten

10. Quarter-Finalist Best Cinematography - Grant Carsten as Timothy Steinhilbur.

Sanctuary Dream is also halfway through its London Tour.

31/08/2021

Sanctuary Dream has been accepted to Infinity Film Festival in London. This same film festival is also supporting some of the directors of Black Mirror and some of the well-respected Working Title Filmmakers, as well as filmmakers from BBC, Disney, and Netflix.

15/08/2021

Well folks, if anyone wanted to compare reviews between someone who hated my film with someone who loved my film, these two reviews from the Utah Film Festival would be it.