Showtime Pilot Program Is Filmed Here

Topanga Productions, Inc. filed for a Jasper County film permit on August 14. The request was to film on Seven Islands Road and Hwy. 11 around the Seven Islands Road area. The filming is for a Showtime television pilot.

Filming crews were in place Saturday through Tuesday with most of them gone by Tuesday night, however a few remained Wednesday morning.

The filming was for an hour-long drama Queen Fur, from writer Eileen Mayers. Stars include Lily Mae Harrington and Kim Dickents. Michael Mosley, Jon Foster, Joshua Mikel, Keith Machekanyanga and Spencer Howell also have been cast as regulars should the pilot go to series.

The Showtime-Sony Pictures TV co-production is set in a small town in Central Florida — a place where beauty pageants, gun culture, Cuban revolutionaries and Southern hospitality co-exist and collide. And at the center of it all is Macy Dunleavy (Harrington) — a curvy, sexy, unapologetic high school dropout who is finding her womanhood and is ready to seize a big opportunity.

“Eileen has created a uniquely twisted female empowerment story that surprises at every turn,” Showtime president of programming Gary Levine said. “I am confident that Lily Mae Harrington, playing this feisty, sexually confident, gun-toting underdog, will have audiences laughing, gasping and, ultimately, cheering for her!”

Pam Mayer serves as our Camera Ready liaison for Jasper County. The location scouts have been in the area for the past six weeks. If the pilot does well on Showtime, it will become a series.

“We are excited to have this production team in our community. The film industry makes a huge economic impact in small rural communities,” sad Mrs. Mayer.