After directing her first short film Ovid in the Gutter (2014) about Ovid, the renowned Roman poet, who finds himself down on his luck and in prison, Esmé von Hoffman made her feature-film directorial debut in directing an independent movie titled Ovid and the Art of Love (2019). Filmed partially at the old St. Agnus Church in Michigan, the television film stars John Savage, Corbin Bleu, Amara Zaragoza and Tara Summers. It was filmed in 2015, but released in 2019.