Knack Factory

06/02/2026

Season 2 of Up The Hearts is here.

The Blazing Musket caught up with Knack Factory's Kurt Graser to discuss the making of the series, why the story of Portland Hearts of Pine continues to be worth telling, and the honor of receiving three Boston/New England Emmy nominations. Read more below.

The Emmy-nominated documentary chronicles Portland Hearts of Pine.

05/28/2026

LETS GOOOOOOOO! ⚽️🎬❤️

04/16/2026

Knack Factory 🤝 Portland Hearts of Pine

Very excited about this partnership with the Hearts!

Big thanks to Kevin Schohl & Gabe Hoffman-Johnson for making this possible.

Up The Hearts! ❤️

04/10/2026

HUGE news for KF Team:

Up The Hearts has been nominated for 3 Emmys!

On top of that, our work on Maine Public's Borealis has also been nominated!

Massive credit to the entire Up The Hearts crew and to Sarah-Taylor and Derek for their incredible work on Borealis.

LETS GOOOOOO!!!

🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨

Up The Hearts has been nominated for THREE Emmys!

Thank you to everyone who worked on it, supported it, and watched it. This means everything to our team.

LET’S FU***NG GO!!!!!!

Up the Hearts ❤️

04/09/2026

🚨New work alert!🚨

New TV commercial produced in partnership with 🎬

Shot at where our team built a custom set to match the tone of the spot. 🙏

Check out the behind the scenes video and the final spot!

03/21/2026

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03/19/2026

Big thanks to David Guildford from 207 NEWS CENTER Maine for sharing our story about producing Up The Hearts. ❤️⚽️

Kurt Graser heads up Knack Factory, which followed Hearts of Pine's meteoric inaugural season.

03/04/2026

We filmed some behind the scenes content with the folks who make home games come alive. 🎥

If you haven’t gone to a game yet this season, make it a priory this month. There are three more home games! 💚🏀

01/17/2026

We were so young…..

#2016

01/15/2026

NEW YEAR, NEW WORK ✨

Just wrapped up a new Maine Spirits TV spot with our friends at

We turned into a full living room set, thanks to Jeff Hartley crushing the build and Rebecca Myshall making the space feel lived-in and perfect. brought the vibes with some beautiful lighting, as always.

Even with a snowy Maine day outside, the crew showed up, worked together, and made it all come together.

New year. New work. Let’s go. 🎬🙌

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