To Hum You My Tune
New York City, New York | Film Feature
Drama, Comedy
In New York City, a guarded twentysomething food courier opens herself up to a magnetic, refreshingly forward young drummer. Her instincts, values, and closest friendship are all tested at once. A grounded story told in a musical world whose reality occasionally bends.
To Hum You My Tune
New York City, New York | Film Feature
Drama, Comedy
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In New York City, a guarded twentysomething food courier opens herself up to a magnetic, refreshingly forward young drummer. Her instincts, values, and closest friendship are all tested at once. A grounded story told in a musical world whose reality occasionally bends.
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Mission Statement
The Story
To Hum You My Tune follows PJ, a twentysomething college graduate drifting through New York City as a food delivery worker. Quietly convinced that finding love might finally give her life direction, she remains guarded. Unable to fully trust others, she struggles to form meaningful connections in a city shaped by dating apps, fleeting encounters, and emotional misdirection. When she meets Nick, a charming and seemingly sincere stranger, during an Uber Share ride, their unexpected connection begins to shift the course of her restless, solitary routine. As they move in and out of each other’s lives, music emerges when language falls short, giving voice to feelings PJ can’t easily express. What starts as an intimate portrait of young adult romance gradually transforms into something more unsettling. This film questions the nature of love, identity, and how well we can ever truly know another person. At its core, this is a film about searching for connection in a city that rarely slows down long enough for people to sit with each other.
Produced by -
Grand street Motion Pictures : https://www.grand-street.pictures/app
Le Chéile Productions : https://lecheileproductions.com/
Instagram -
@Grandstreetpictures
@Lecheileproductions
PJ has made a life for herself in New York City as a food courier. Delivering on a bike is her favorite way to explore the city: on her own terms while being reminded of her own mortality. She looks for what she needs from people who can't give it to her through a string of casual hookups. Her typically guarded nature is soothed only by her closest friend, Liv. The film unfolds in a New York where reality occasionally bends.
One night, leaving a hookup to meet Liv for drinks, PJ shares an Uber with a strangely forward young man named Nick. His admiration of her wired earbuds but disapproval of her love life leaves her questioning his motives and her desires. Later, after a passionate karaoke performance wins over both PJ and Liv, he takes out his own AirPods, leaving PJ with a bad taste.
A "debrief" the next morning reveals Nick is a third-grade teacher, that PJ refuses to wear a helmet on her rides, and that Nick claims to have powers. PJ takes it as a dumb joke. Her musical tastes and affection for singing weave through nights at Nick's punk-band shows, a party full of his unexplained history, and her thrilling delivery rides.
After a chaotic night out, PJ and Nick walk the streets of New York, where she shares her longing for a relationship that will make her feel complete. After stepping into a deserted park, PJ begins singing an original tune. Nick joins in and the two string together a song that is awkward, sweet, powerful, and deepens their relationship.
But on the dreamlike bike ride home, a sinister undertone develops. PJ soon discovers Nick wasn't lying about his powers. As the secrets between them grow and her closest friendship begins to shift, she confronts how much of herself she's willing to reveal, and whether the protective barriers she's built were ever justified.
Characters
PJ
The protagonist
Meet PJ, a guarded young woman who likes what she likes: namely, her friend Liv, biking across New York City without a helmet, and emotionally unavailable romantic prospects. Uncompromising and with a unique aversion to change, PJ needs to learn that living a life at the whims of others isn't the path she's meant to walk. While she is open and goofy with Liv, she is skeptical of forming connections with new people in her life. Enter Nick.
Nick
The love interest
Nick is a teacher by day and kind of a rockstar by night; his shameless fascination with PJ contrasts with her begrudging coldness. Sauve and confident, he is straightforward about the things he wants. PJ finds this liberating. His infectious energy and positive attitude also make it easy to ignore his red flags...
Liv
The best friend
Liv is the good cop to PJ's bad cop. Unlike PJ, she is in a committed, mature, long-term relationship. This proves testing for PJ, who has spent years relying on her friend for emotional support. Liv takes a lot of PJ’s shit, perhaps to ease some of her own guilt, and is figuring out how to balance the two most important relationships in her life.
Search for Connection
How do we form genuine connections when everyone seems to be performing a version of themselves? PJ is tired of the apps, the hookups, the starting over. She just wants something real, someone that she can grow with. That is difficult when she is unwilling to fully reveal herself...
Protective Barriers
Sometimes, we feel justified in putting up walls against new people. PJ's fatal flaw is not knowing when to lower her shield or raise it high. She has been hurt and used in the past, and hasn't always put her trust in the right people. Learning to open up leaves us vulnerable. It's also the only way to live into the possibilities surrounding us.
Friendship
Like many friendships formed in college, PJ and Liv's evolves as adulthood reshapes their lives. Friendship, often overlooked in romance stories, is often the most authentic and essential relationship we can have. In these meaningful connections made while we are still figuring out who we are, there is not always space to grow and change, and ultimately get what we need.
Coming Home to Yourself
This is PJ's story, whether she likes it or not. She spends much of her life looking for permission to be herself. The actions of Liv and Nick leave her wounded, and she must find a way to heal on her own. Other people's views stop acting as reflections of her worth, and with a new sense of self-respect, she can be there for those who have been there for her.
Why This Story Matters
I wrote To Hum You My Tune drawing directly from my own experiences in New York City.
I was a bike delivery worker during the early stages of my film career. The hours I spent riding across New York gave me a unique perspective on the rhythms of the city. Many of the locations and scenarios in this film come directly from those years in my early twenties.
As both a filmmaker and a musician, I’m also deeply familiar with the constant grind that the city can place on people pursuing unconventional lives. New York has an unrelenting way of propelling you forward without giving you a chance to figure out what kind of life you want to build. That tension between freedom and uncertainty became the emotional foundation for PJ’s story.
While some of PJ’s experiences draw on my own time living in the city, the character will truly come alive through Sabyne Santiago's performance. Sabyne is a born-and-raised New Yorker, and their experience in the city and understanding of the realities of New York life bring authenticity to the role and will help shape PJ into a character that feels lived-in.
We're living in a time where ghosting is the norm. Modern dating culture can make commitment feel like a relic of the past. With the fear of being led on or sharing unreciprocated feelings, many of us decide the risk isn't worth the reward. PJ is one of these people. Her worst fears have come true too many times. But one of the greatest things about being human is a hope that perseveres. Through her trials and tribulations, PJ becomes stronger all while carrying a greater willingness to get hurt.
Mousetrap
A look at the short film made by the same team on a limited budget, selected for this year's New York Short Film Festival. While working as a photographer at an indie music show, a withdrawn young woman must face her failing relationship when she can no longer hide behind the camera. Consider it a proof of concept:
Visual Style
Visually, To Hum You My Tune draws on the intimate realism of Lynne Ramsay and the urban atmosphere of Frances Ha and Past Lives. Its musical sequences shift into a more subjective, handheld style reminiscent of the films of Joachim Trier. The result is a film that's grounded but colorful, simple until it becomes chaotic, raw yet visually striking:
The Worst Person in the World - Dir. Joachim Trier
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Frances Ha - Dir. Noah Baumbach
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Past Lives - Dir. Celine Song
Ratcatcher - Dir. Lynne Ramsay
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Ratcatcher - Director of Photography: Alwin H. Küchler
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Frances Ha - Director of Photography: Sam Levy
Musical Language
The music elevates PJ's journey beyond the constraints of reality. Her fondness for singing leads to reality-bending moments when songs replace words.
Check out this live performance of one of the original songs to be used in the film:
This song, strengthening the bond between PJ and Nick, is one of many that will come to life through the collaboration of a group of artists from the Brooklyn underground music scene.
The musicians involved in creating the original score have been crafting their sound together for years. This is evident in the alternative Americana band Dogwood Gap or the orchestral indie project Sockeye, created by director Hayden Carr-Loize.
Where original tracks from the New York indie scene will be used as PJ’s personal soundtrack, strings and more traditional instrumentation will be used for the movie’s non-diegetic score. Together, they will shape a musical language that expresses PJ in a way that words alone cannot. Check out Revelator Records to listen to the artists behind the sonic world of the film.
To Hum You My Tune will be filmed throughout New York City, with key locations across Brooklyn and Manhattan, many of which directly inspired the writing of the script. We plan to shoot in September 2026, with a target budget of $50,000. As of May, we have $10,000 of funding already secured from executive producers and private financiers.
What makes this possible at such a modest budget is the community behind it: a group of close friends and collaborators who have been making art together for years, many of them extremely talented artists contributing their time and skill for little to no cost.
The production is led by Hayden Carr-Loize (Writer, Director, Actor, Editor, and contributor to the film's music), alongside his brother Henri Carr-Loize (Director of Photography) and their childhood friend Martin Agustin (Assistant Camera). Together, we have spent years learning how to build ambitious projects with limited resources, under Grand Street Motion Pictures. We are all producers on this film, in addition to Julia Carr, an Irish Actress, Writer, Producer, and founder of Le Chéile Productions. She brings a well-rounded and fresh perspective to the production process. Because so many of our team work across multiple disciplines and are deeply invested in the project, we can stretch every dollar far further than a traditional production could. Our goal is to create a microbudget film that feels far larger than its monetary constraints through serious preparation, egoless collaboration, and an incredibly dedicated creative community.
Team
Hayden Carr-Loize
(Writer, Director, Producer, Editor)
Daydreaming about the latest script while he should have been paying attention to the teacher, Hayden has always been drawn to the stories his mind churns out. Some may call it an overactive imagination, but when channeled into the right project, his ability to craft gripping plots and complicated characters speaks for itself. To Hum You My Tune is Hayden's fourth feature-length screenplay. The lessons learned from countless drafts are evident in the story's assuredness and unique genre-blending that plays to his strengths as a writer.
Henri Carr-Loize
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(Director of Photography, Producer)
While Hayden was daydreaming in class, his brother Henri was studying the light coming through the classroom window. As a curious middle-schooler, Henri picked up his dad's old camera and never put it down again, aside from testing the assortment of other cameras and lenses he obsessively collected. Over the span of his love affair with photography, his curiosity of light and composition naturally led him to the world of cinematography. Throughout his many years behind the camera, he has built a visual language rooted in naturalism and intimacy. His work behind the camera gives Grand Street Motion Pictures its distinct look: grounded and observant, yet uniquely melancholic and artfully composed.
Martin Agustin
(AC, Producer)
Martin brings energy to every set, bonding with Henri behind the camera for many years. From their early days of backyard filmmaking as children, he was the one who showed up first and stayed the latest, creating fake wounds for zombie victims and volunteering for whatever acting role needed filling. As he matured with the Carr-Loize brothers, he further honed his skills shooting music videos and stepping up to produce several short films. Whether he's operating the gimbal as AC, captivating audiences on camera, or keeping the production moving as a producer, his versatility and dedication make him an indispensable part of Grand Street Motion Pictures.
Julia Carr
(Producer)
As an Actor writer and producer, Julia brings a well-rounded perspective both in front of and behind the camera. Her production strategy has been developed, refined and enhanced with every project. She brings her expertise, knowledge, and skills to this production team, whether its script reviews, fundraising or on set. Julia's eye for detail and focus on quality and audience engagement is at the core of her role. Julia established her production company, Le Chéile Productions when she moved to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. ‘Le cheile’, meaning ‘together’ in Irish, is a Production company dedicated to telling diverse, emotionally impactful stories about people from all walks of life coming together.
Why We Need Your Help
Independent films exist because people believe in them.
Our team works as efficiently and resourcefully as we can, but making a feature still requires essential resources: experienced technical professionals, insurance for the safety of our biking actors, and the right equipment to achieve our vision. Your support allows us to create the film responsibly and to make sure the people bringing it to life are paid for their work- or at least have full stomachs when they do.
Funding from this campaign goes directly toward:
To keep production transparent, our associate producer, Hayden Ivatts, built the Pre-Production Portal, a fully operational website that tracks every aspect of our pre-production and budgeting process. Serious investors will be able to log in to our site to see exactly where their money is going.
With your help, we can turn To Hum You My Tune from a script into a finished film.
Check out: https://www.grand-street.pictures/app for additional information.
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CAST
Costs $5,000
Our extremely talented cast is full of dedicated actors who believe in our vision. Help compensate them for their invaluable time.
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER
Costs $6,500
"Sound is half the picture" - George Lucas A professional sound mixer on set is necessary for immersing audiences in the world of a film.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Costs $3,500
We have an incredible AD who has worked with us on multiple projects. He is giving up higher-paying gigs to work on this passion project.
GAFFER
Costs $3,000
Without a gaffer, the director and cinematographer are left without an essential toolset for manipulating light and visual storytelling.
POST PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER
Costs $1,000
During the editing process, a sound mixer uses technical expertise and audio software mastery to further immerse the audience in the story.
SET DESIGN, COSTUME, MAKEUP
Costs $2,000
Props, costumes, and misc production costs will help us build a world that feels lived in, populated by characters that positively dazzle.
LOCATION COST
Costs $5,000
From karaoke bars to luxurious rooftops, our locations go a long way in telling a New York story that feels true to real-life inspiration.
EQUIPMENT COST
Costs $3,000
Lighting and lenses, essentially. Our shot list was carefully constructed with this equipment in mind.
CATERING COST
Costs $4,200
Supplying the cast and crew with tasty meals and energizing snacks is crucial to any production. And of course, coffee.
INSURANCE
Costs $5,500
To safely film our bike sequences and shoot in the streets of New York, our LLC will be backed up by the necessary insurance.
POST PRODUCTION AND FESTIVALS
Costs $2,000
Though we are doing much of the post-production ourselves, there are always unforeseen costs in completing a movie. And festivals ain't free
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About This Team
Our Team
The Carr-Loize Brothers
Hayden and Henri Carr-Loize were never all that interested in buying new games to play when they could just create their own. Whether it was color pencil-drawn board games on poster paper, binders filled with rules for RPG games we could never convince enough friends to commit to, or designing original characters and movesets for video games that would surely be made once Sony responded to the incessant emails from two teenage boys, our favorite cure for boredom was to flesh out our most captivating ideas.
In middle school, through the iPod touch and small, high-quality portable cameras, we found the perfect vehicle for these ideas that offered friends starring performances on screen. That was also around the time our parents let us watch Fight Club for the first time. Teenage boys experiencing the magic of Fight Club, are you kidding me? From then on, everything became movies. Watching, writing, filming, editing. Our school grades may have suffered, but there was really no other choice.
As we grew up, our tastes matured and our standards became much higher. Hayden received a BFA in Film and English in order to grow as a writer and director. Henri went to Los Angeles for a program specializing in Cinematography. These are the roles we naturally fell into in our earliest projects, though there is enough trust to always hear each other out. Our collaboration holds us to the highest standard possible, as we both want our films to be the greatest they can be in every conceivable way. With each project, our initial grandiose visions get closer to being fully captured through the magic of movies. The inner children whose lives were changed by moving images now know exactly how to use cinematic language to offer back the same, deeply affecting experience to their own audience.
Martin Agustin
AC, Producer
Martin grew up alongside the Carr-Loize brothers and, as the youngest of the group, always looked up to them as mentors and sources of inspiration. From a young age, Martin found solace in film, a passion further cultivated by countless movies watched together during the trio's childhood. He has long expressed a desire to create films that evoke the same powerful emotions he has experienced walking out of a theater.
Martin and Henri spent much of their formative years side by side, documenting the world around them through a lens, an experience that makes Martin the ideal AC for this project. In September of 2025, Martin relocated to New York City to fully dedicate himself to this passion project.
Julia Carr
Producer
Julia is an Irish artist working between Ireland and New York City. Working as an actor, writer, and producer, she brings a well-rounded perspective both in front of and behind the camera. Julia has been involved in Netflix TV shows and Off-Broadway plays like ‘5 Women wearing the same dress’ and many independent short films. Julia will star in, direct, and be the executive producer of the upcoming miniseries 'What's your number?', taking on multiple creative roles in the production. Julia began writing the miniseries after moving to New York to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and establish her production company, Le Chéile Productions. Raised in the heart of Dublin, Julia grew up immersed in Ireland’s rich storytelling tradition, cultural depth, and emotional honesty, which deeply shaped her artistic voice.
Lionel Jeffries
Assistant Director
Lionel R Jeffries is a writer and filmmaker from Connecticut whose creative interests include history, introspection, the supernatural, and the strange. Born to an American mother and English father, he deeply values both his regional identity as a New Englander and his European ancestry. A formative creative experience for Jeffries was collaborating with the Narragansett Indian Tribe to create Living Swamp, a student film broadcast on Rhode Island PBS that protests the whitewashing of colonial genocide, for which he acted as its researcher, storyteller, and first-time analog filmmaker.
Sabyne Santiago
Lead Actor
Sabyne Nanichi Santiago (she/they) is an uptown NY native actor, writer, and mover. They have a keen interest in embodying corporeality and exploring the essence of expansion ever since they’ve awoken to their own power of self. They began their studies in creation at the Boys and Girls Harbor in Spanish Harlem, where they fell in love with dance, theater, and music theory. They have been chasing how to blend all 3 ever since. Queer, nonbinary, Bori, and Nigerian, Sabyne is always searching through histories, finding worlds in folklore and magical realism as a method of survival and immortality.
Sabyne has been featured in film and theater productions throughout New York City. Sacerdotisa (2020). Mousetrap (2025). Romeo & Juliet (New Relic Theater, MOTIV). Crave (Stairwell Theater, LA MAMA). Resurrection (American Theater of Actors). They have also offered their visage for different modeling gigs throughout NYC.
Julie Keefe
Lead Actor
Julie Keefe is a Brooklyn-based musician, actor, and writer. Originally from a small town in New Jersey (which she is obsessed with talkin about), Julie moved to New York to pursue her creative endeavours. She has trained in Meisner technique through the Matthew Corozine Studio and has studied improv and sketch writing at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, where she now regularly performs with her improv troupe. In addition to her performance experience, Julie is writing a mockumentary TV show, the pilot of which recently had its first live reading. She is also finalizing her debut EP, which will be released under "Julie Wood" in Fall 2026.
Rachel Bard
Location Manager
Rachel Bard is a New York-based musician, filmmaker, and photographer. Her work combines film photography, videography, writing, and music, using an observational lens to explore and reflect on the everyday. She is thrilled to be part of the Grand Street Motion Pictures team as a location manager for their upcoming feature, To Hum You My Tune. As an established voice of the New York art scene, she is using her far-reaching connections to find locations that are supported and run by a community that champions original work.
Hayden Ivatts
Associate Producer
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Mission Statement
The Story
To Hum You My Tune follows PJ, a twentysomething college graduate drifting through New York City as a food delivery worker. Quietly convinced that finding love might finally give her life direction, she remains guarded. Unable to fully trust others, she struggles to form meaningful connections in a city shaped by dating apps, fleeting encounters, and emotional misdirection. When she meets Nick, a charming and seemingly sincere stranger, during an Uber Share ride, their unexpected connection begins to shift the course of her restless, solitary routine. As they move in and out of each other’s lives, music emerges when language falls short, giving voice to feelings PJ can’t easily express. What starts as an intimate portrait of young adult romance gradually transforms into something more unsettling. This film questions the nature of love, identity, and how well we can ever truly know another person. At its core, this is a film about searching for connection in a city that rarely slows down long enough for people to sit with each other.
Produced by -
Grand street Motion Pictures : https://www.grand-street.pictures/app
Le Chéile Productions : https://lecheileproductions.com/
Instagram -
@Grandstreetpictures
@Lecheileproductions
PJ has made a life for herself in New York City as a food courier. Delivering on a bike is her favorite way to explore the city: on her own terms while being reminded of her own mortality. She looks for what she needs from people who can't give it to her through a string of casual hookups. Her typically guarded nature is soothed only by her closest friend, Liv. The film unfolds in a New York where reality occasionally bends.
One night, leaving a hookup to meet Liv for drinks, PJ shares an Uber with a strangely forward young man named Nick. His admiration of her wired earbuds but disapproval of her love life leaves her questioning his motives and her desires. Later, after a passionate karaoke performance wins over both PJ and Liv, he takes out his own AirPods, leaving PJ with a bad taste.
A "debrief" the next morning reveals Nick is a third-grade teacher, that PJ refuses to wear a helmet on her rides, and that Nick claims to have powers. PJ takes it as a dumb joke. Her musical tastes and affection for singing weave through nights at Nick's punk-band shows, a party full of his unexplained history, and her thrilling delivery rides.
After a chaotic night out, PJ and Nick walk the streets of New York, where she shares her longing for a relationship that will make her feel complete. After stepping into a deserted park, PJ begins singing an original tune. Nick joins in and the two string together a song that is awkward, sweet, powerful, and deepens their relationship.
But on the dreamlike bike ride home, a sinister undertone develops. PJ soon discovers Nick wasn't lying about his powers. As the secrets between them grow and her closest friendship begins to shift, she confronts how much of herself she's willing to reveal, and whether the protective barriers she's built were ever justified.
Characters
PJ
The protagonist
Meet PJ, a guarded young woman who likes what she likes: namely, her friend Liv, biking across New York City without a helmet, and emotionally unavailable romantic prospects. Uncompromising and with a unique aversion to change, PJ needs to learn that living a life at the whims of others isn't the path she's meant to walk. While she is open and goofy with Liv, she is skeptical of forming connections with new people in her life. Enter Nick.
Nick
The love interest
Nick is a teacher by day and kind of a rockstar by night; his shameless fascination with PJ contrasts with her begrudging coldness. Sauve and confident, he is straightforward about the things he wants. PJ finds this liberating. His infectious energy and positive attitude also make it easy to ignore his red flags...
Liv
The best friend
Liv is the good cop to PJ's bad cop. Unlike PJ, she is in a committed, mature, long-term relationship. This proves testing for PJ, who has spent years relying on her friend for emotional support. Liv takes a lot of PJ’s shit, perhaps to ease some of her own guilt, and is figuring out how to balance the two most important relationships in her life.
Search for Connection
How do we form genuine connections when everyone seems to be performing a version of themselves? PJ is tired of the apps, the hookups, the starting over. She just wants something real, someone that she can grow with. That is difficult when she is unwilling to fully reveal herself...
Protective Barriers
Sometimes, we feel justified in putting up walls against new people. PJ's fatal flaw is not knowing when to lower her shield or raise it high. She has been hurt and used in the past, and hasn't always put her trust in the right people. Learning to open up leaves us vulnerable. It's also the only way to live into the possibilities surrounding us.
Friendship
Like many friendships formed in college, PJ and Liv's evolves as adulthood reshapes their lives. Friendship, often overlooked in romance stories, is often the most authentic and essential relationship we can have. In these meaningful connections made while we are still figuring out who we are, there is not always space to grow and change, and ultimately get what we need.
Coming Home to Yourself
This is PJ's story, whether she likes it or not. She spends much of her life looking for permission to be herself. The actions of Liv and Nick leave her wounded, and she must find a way to heal on her own. Other people's views stop acting as reflections of her worth, and with a new sense of self-respect, she can be there for those who have been there for her.
Why This Story Matters
I wrote To Hum You My Tune drawing directly from my own experiences in New York City.
I was a bike delivery worker during the early stages of my film career. The hours I spent riding across New York gave me a unique perspective on the rhythms of the city. Many of the locations and scenarios in this film come directly from those years in my early twenties.
As both a filmmaker and a musician, I’m also deeply familiar with the constant grind that the city can place on people pursuing unconventional lives. New York has an unrelenting way of propelling you forward without giving you a chance to figure out what kind of life you want to build. That tension between freedom and uncertainty became the emotional foundation for PJ’s story.
While some of PJ’s experiences draw on my own time living in the city, the character will truly come alive through Sabyne Santiago's performance. Sabyne is a born-and-raised New Yorker, and their experience in the city and understanding of the realities of New York life bring authenticity to the role and will help shape PJ into a character that feels lived-in.
We're living in a time where ghosting is the norm. Modern dating culture can make commitment feel like a relic of the past. With the fear of being led on or sharing unreciprocated feelings, many of us decide the risk isn't worth the reward. PJ is one of these people. Her worst fears have come true too many times. But one of the greatest things about being human is a hope that perseveres. Through her trials and tribulations, PJ becomes stronger all while carrying a greater willingness to get hurt.
Mousetrap
A look at the short film made by the same team on a limited budget, selected for this year's New York Short Film Festival. While working as a photographer at an indie music show, a withdrawn young woman must face her failing relationship when she can no longer hide behind the camera. Consider it a proof of concept:
Visual Style
Visually, To Hum You My Tune draws on the intimate realism of Lynne Ramsay and the urban atmosphere of Frances Ha and Past Lives. Its musical sequences shift into a more subjective, handheld style reminiscent of the films of Joachim Trier. The result is a film that's grounded but colorful, simple until it becomes chaotic, raw yet visually striking:
The Worst Person in the World - Dir. Joachim Trier
Frances Ha - Dir. Noah Baumbach
Past Lives - Dir. Celine Song
Ratcatcher - Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Ratcatcher - Director of Photography: Alwin H. Küchler
Frances Ha - Director of Photography: Sam Levy
Musical Language
The music elevates PJ's journey beyond the constraints of reality. Her fondness for singing leads to reality-bending moments when songs replace words.
Check out this live performance of one of the original songs to be used in the film:
This song, strengthening the bond between PJ and Nick, is one of many that will come to life through the collaboration of a group of artists from the Brooklyn underground music scene.
The musicians involved in creating the original score have been crafting their sound together for years. This is evident in the alternative Americana band Dogwood Gap or the orchestral indie project Sockeye, created by director Hayden Carr-Loize.
Where original tracks from the New York indie scene will be used as PJ’s personal soundtrack, strings and more traditional instrumentation will be used for the movie’s non-diegetic score. Together, they will shape a musical language that expresses PJ in a way that words alone cannot. Check out Revelator Records to listen to the artists behind the sonic world of the film.
To Hum You My Tune will be filmed throughout New York City, with key locations across Brooklyn and Manhattan, many of which directly inspired the writing of the script. We plan to shoot in September 2026, with a target budget of $50,000. As of May, we have $10,000 of funding already secured from executive producers and private financiers.
What makes this possible at such a modest budget is the community behind it: a group of close friends and collaborators who have been making art together for years, many of them extremely talented artists contributing their time and skill for little to no cost.
The production is led by Hayden Carr-Loize (Writer, Director, Actor, Editor, and contributor to the film's music), alongside his brother Henri Carr-Loize (Director of Photography) and their childhood friend Martin Agustin (Assistant Camera). Together, we have spent years learning how to build ambitious projects with limited resources, under Grand Street Motion Pictures. We are all producers on this film, in addition to Julia Carr, an Irish Actress, Writer, Producer, and founder of Le Chéile Productions. She brings a well-rounded and fresh perspective to the production process. Because so many of our team work across multiple disciplines and are deeply invested in the project, we can stretch every dollar far further than a traditional production could. Our goal is to create a microbudget film that feels far larger than its monetary constraints through serious preparation, egoless collaboration, and an incredibly dedicated creative community.
Team
Hayden Carr-Loize
(Writer, Director, Producer, Editor)
Daydreaming about the latest script while he should have been paying attention to the teacher, Hayden has always been drawn to the stories his mind churns out. Some may call it an overactive imagination, but when channeled into the right project, his ability to craft gripping plots and complicated characters speaks for itself. To Hum You My Tune is Hayden's fourth feature-length screenplay. The lessons learned from countless drafts are evident in the story's assuredness and unique genre-blending that plays to his strengths as a writer.
Henri Carr-Loize
(Director of Photography, Producer)
While Hayden was daydreaming in class, his brother Henri was studying the light coming through the classroom window. As a curious middle-schooler, Henri picked up his dad's old camera and never put it down again, aside from testing the assortment of other cameras and lenses he obsessively collected. Over the span of his love affair with photography, his curiosity of light and composition naturally led him to the world of cinematography. Throughout his many years behind the camera, he has built a visual language rooted in naturalism and intimacy. His work behind the camera gives Grand Street Motion Pictures its distinct look: grounded and observant, yet uniquely melancholic and artfully composed.
Martin Agustin
(AC, Producer)
Martin brings energy to every set, bonding with Henri behind the camera for many years. From their early days of backyard filmmaking as children, he was the one who showed up first and stayed the latest, creating fake wounds for zombie victims and volunteering for whatever acting role needed filling. As he matured with the Carr-Loize brothers, he further honed his skills shooting music videos and stepping up to produce several short films. Whether he's operating the gimbal as AC, captivating audiences on camera, or keeping the production moving as a producer, his versatility and dedication make him an indispensable part of Grand Street Motion Pictures.
Julia Carr
(Producer)
As an Actor writer and producer, Julia brings a well-rounded perspective both in front of and behind the camera. Her production strategy has been developed, refined and enhanced with every project. She brings her expertise, knowledge, and skills to this production team, whether its script reviews, fundraising or on set. Julia's eye for detail and focus on quality and audience engagement is at the core of her role. Julia established her production company, Le Chéile Productions when she moved to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. ‘Le cheile’, meaning ‘together’ in Irish, is a Production company dedicated to telling diverse, emotionally impactful stories about people from all walks of life coming together.
Why We Need Your Help
Independent films exist because people believe in them.
Our team works as efficiently and resourcefully as we can, but making a feature still requires essential resources: experienced technical professionals, insurance for the safety of our biking actors, and the right equipment to achieve our vision. Your support allows us to create the film responsibly and to make sure the people bringing it to life are paid for their work- or at least have full stomachs when they do.
Funding from this campaign goes directly toward:
To keep production transparent, our associate producer, Hayden Ivatts, built the Pre-Production Portal, a fully operational website that tracks every aspect of our pre-production and budgeting process. Serious investors will be able to log in to our site to see exactly where their money is going.
With your help, we can turn To Hum You My Tune from a script into a finished film.
Check out: https://www.grand-street.pictures/app for additional information.
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CAST
Costs $5,000
Our extremely talented cast is full of dedicated actors who believe in our vision. Help compensate them for their invaluable time.
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER
Costs $6,500
"Sound is half the picture" - George Lucas A professional sound mixer on set is necessary for immersing audiences in the world of a film.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Costs $3,500
We have an incredible AD who has worked with us on multiple projects. He is giving up higher-paying gigs to work on this passion project.
GAFFER
Costs $3,000
Without a gaffer, the director and cinematographer are left without an essential toolset for manipulating light and visual storytelling.
POST PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER
Costs $1,000
During the editing process, a sound mixer uses technical expertise and audio software mastery to further immerse the audience in the story.
SET DESIGN, COSTUME, MAKEUP
Costs $2,000
Props, costumes, and misc production costs will help us build a world that feels lived in, populated by characters that positively dazzle.
LOCATION COST
Costs $5,000
From karaoke bars to luxurious rooftops, our locations go a long way in telling a New York story that feels true to real-life inspiration.
EQUIPMENT COST
Costs $3,000
Lighting and lenses, essentially. Our shot list was carefully constructed with this equipment in mind.
CATERING COST
Costs $4,200
Supplying the cast and crew with tasty meals and energizing snacks is crucial to any production. And of course, coffee.
INSURANCE
Costs $5,500
To safely film our bike sequences and shoot in the streets of New York, our LLC will be backed up by the necessary insurance.
POST PRODUCTION AND FESTIVALS
Costs $2,000
Though we are doing much of the post-production ourselves, there are always unforeseen costs in completing a movie. And festivals ain't free
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About This Team
Our Team
The Carr-Loize Brothers
Hayden and Henri Carr-Loize were never all that interested in buying new games to play when they could just create their own. Whether it was color pencil-drawn board games on poster paper, binders filled with rules for RPG games we could never convince enough friends to commit to, or designing original characters and movesets for video games that would surely be made once Sony responded to the incessant emails from two teenage boys, our favorite cure for boredom was to flesh out our most captivating ideas.
In middle school, through the iPod touch and small, high-quality portable cameras, we found the perfect vehicle for these ideas that offered friends starring performances on screen. That was also around the time our parents let us watch Fight Club for the first time. Teenage boys experiencing the magic of Fight Club, are you kidding me? From then on, everything became movies. Watching, writing, filming, editing. Our school grades may have suffered, but there was really no other choice.
As we grew up, our tastes matured and our standards became much higher. Hayden received a BFA in Film and English in order to grow as a writer and director. Henri went to Los Angeles for a program specializing in Cinematography. These are the roles we naturally fell into in our earliest projects, though there is enough trust to always hear each other out. Our collaboration holds us to the highest standard possible, as we both want our films to be the greatest they can be in every conceivable way. With each project, our initial grandiose visions get closer to being fully captured through the magic of movies. The inner children whose lives were changed by moving images now know exactly how to use cinematic language to offer back the same, deeply affecting experience to their own audience.
Martin Agustin
AC, Producer
Martin grew up alongside the Carr-Loize brothers and, as the youngest of the group, always looked up to them as mentors and sources of inspiration. From a young age, Martin found solace in film, a passion further cultivated by countless movies watched together during the trio's childhood. He has long expressed a desire to create films that evoke the same powerful emotions he has experienced walking out of a theater.
Martin and Henri spent much of their formative years side by side, documenting the world around them through a lens, an experience that makes Martin the ideal AC for this project. In September of 2025, Martin relocated to New York City to fully dedicate himself to this passion project.
Julia Carr
Producer
Julia is an Irish artist working between Ireland and New York City. Working as an actor, writer, and producer, she brings a well-rounded perspective both in front of and behind the camera. Julia has been involved in Netflix TV shows and Off-Broadway plays like ‘5 Women wearing the same dress’ and many independent short films. Julia will star in, direct, and be the executive producer of the upcoming miniseries 'What's your number?', taking on multiple creative roles in the production. Julia began writing the miniseries after moving to New York to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and establish her production company, Le Chéile Productions. Raised in the heart of Dublin, Julia grew up immersed in Ireland’s rich storytelling tradition, cultural depth, and emotional honesty, which deeply shaped her artistic voice.
Lionel Jeffries
Assistant Director
Lionel R Jeffries is a writer and filmmaker from Connecticut whose creative interests include history, introspection, the supernatural, and the strange. Born to an American mother and English father, he deeply values both his regional identity as a New Englander and his European ancestry. A formative creative experience for Jeffries was collaborating with the Narragansett Indian Tribe to create Living Swamp, a student film broadcast on Rhode Island PBS that protests the whitewashing of colonial genocide, for which he acted as its researcher, storyteller, and first-time analog filmmaker.
Sabyne Santiago
Lead Actor
Sabyne Nanichi Santiago (she/they) is an uptown NY native actor, writer, and mover. They have a keen interest in embodying corporeality and exploring the essence of expansion ever since they’ve awoken to their own power of self. They began their studies in creation at the Boys and Girls Harbor in Spanish Harlem, where they fell in love with dance, theater, and music theory. They have been chasing how to blend all 3 ever since. Queer, nonbinary, Bori, and Nigerian, Sabyne is always searching through histories, finding worlds in folklore and magical realism as a method of survival and immortality.
Sabyne has been featured in film and theater productions throughout New York City. Sacerdotisa (2020). Mousetrap (2025). Romeo & Juliet (New Relic Theater, MOTIV). Crave (Stairwell Theater, LA MAMA). Resurrection (American Theater of Actors). They have also offered their visage for different modeling gigs throughout NYC.
Julie Keefe
Lead Actor
Julie Keefe is a Brooklyn-based musician, actor, and writer. Originally from a small town in New Jersey (which she is obsessed with talkin about), Julie moved to New York to pursue her creative endeavours. She has trained in Meisner technique through the Matthew Corozine Studio and has studied improv and sketch writing at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, where she now regularly performs with her improv troupe. In addition to her performance experience, Julie is writing a mockumentary TV show, the pilot of which recently had its first live reading. She is also finalizing her debut EP, which will be released under "Julie Wood" in Fall 2026.
Rachel Bard
Location Manager
Rachel Bard is a New York-based musician, filmmaker, and photographer. Her work combines film photography, videography, writing, and music, using an observational lens to explore and reflect on the everyday. She is thrilled to be part of the Grand Street Motion Pictures team as a location manager for their upcoming feature, To Hum You My Tune. As an established voice of the New York art scene, she is using her far-reaching connections to find locations that are supported and run by a community that champions original work.