Canadian filmmaker Joan Carr-Wiggin has commenced principal photography on her latest pic, “A Grand Romantic Gesture.” The dramedy stars Gina McKee (“Bodyguard”).

Penned by Carr-Wiggin, “A Grand Romantic Gesture” tells the story of Ava (McKee), a woman who loses her job due to cutbacks. Her husband (Rob Stewart, “Killjoys”) and pregnant daughter (Rose Reynolds, “Once Upon a Time”) “encourage her to take up gourmet cooking and prepare for life as a grandmother,” a press release details. “Instead she signs up for a drama class where she is cast as Juliet – and finds herself falling in love with her Romeo (Douglas Hodge, ‘Black Mirror’).”

Paragraph Pictures and Highfield Grange Studios are producing the pic, which is currently shooting in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. levelFILM will distribute the film in Canada.

“When I ask smart, capable young women working on set, ‘Hey, why don’t you think about directing?’ most of them immediately reply, ‘Oh I could never do that.’ Why do they think that? They think that because too many people are saying women can’t do the job,” Carr-Wiggin wrote in a guest post for Women and Hollywood. “Well I’m here to say that they can do it, and we have to fight the propaganda that tells women that directing is not a job for them. So yes, women, it is a job for us.”

“A Grand Romantic Gesture” will be the sixth feature Carr-Wiggin has released in less then a decade, following 2012’s “If I Were You,” 2016’s “Happily Ever After,” 2017’s “Love of My Life,” and “The Bet” and “Getting To Know You,” both of which are currently in post-production. The indie writer-director made her feature debut with 1997’s “Honeymoon.”