Vancouver: Love and Other Dilemmas, a new $1-million feature from Clarity Films, under the single-purpose banner Perfect Day Pictures, will go to camera on March 22 after four years of gearing up.

Love, says producer Clare Hodge (50 Questions), is a dark, romantic comedy, ‘in the screwball tradition,’ about a pregnant bride who is kidnapped on her wedding day, only to have things get worse from there.

Deborah Peraya (Robson Arms) wrote the film while pregnant with her daughter, who is now four years old – a handy reminder of how long it has taken to put the project together. The filmmakers joke that it took them ‘three feet’ to get where they are, in reference to how tall the little girl is now.

Peraya’s husband Larry Di Stefano (The Lumiere Report) is directing, with Savi Media’s Alexandra Raffé (Zixx) executive producing. Suzan Derkson McLeod is on board as line producer. The cast is still being determined. Love is being funded by Telefilm Canada, the NSI Features First program, The Movie Network/Movie Central and ThinkFilm, which is distributing in Canada. Love went through Features First in 2003/04.

Shooting is scheduled to run until April 11, mostly in east Vancouver, where Di Stefano grew up and currently resides with Peraya.