A modern-day EMMA finds David Martinez being secretly set up with his daughter’s teacher when the young girl begins a matchmaking business for a school project.
Playing Cupid
Director
David Weaver
Stars
Laura Vandervoot, Nicholas Gonzalez, & Mia Quaranta de la Rosa
Writer
Jenny Meyerhoff & Nina Weinman
Location
Vancouver Lower Mainland, BC
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2021
Logline
Nominations and Awards
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Leo Awards 2022 – Winner
- Casting – Catharine Falcon, Bim Narine
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Leo Awards 2022 – Nominations
- Program Ben C. Silverman, Alexandre Coscas, Michael Goldstein, Aidan Heatley, Michael Shepard, Caitlin Friedman, Jef Jaminsky, Iole Lucchese
- Direction David Weaver
- Musical Score Michael Neilson
- Production Design Paul Joyal
- Costume Design Trish Petrovich
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Trailer
Synopsis
Middle-school teacher, Kerri Fox, a favorite among her students, assigns a project in her class where each student must create and run his/her own small business. Thirteen-year-old Clara Martinez decides to put her vast matchmaking skills to the test and becomes Cupid Clara, much to the chagrin of her newly single father, David. As the weeks progress and Cupid Clara begins to flourish, Kerri gets more than she bargained for when Clara sets her sights on her newly single teacher as a potential match for her divorced dad. Can these two opposites really attract, and will they become yet another successful match for Cupid Clara?