A picturesque rural area on the Sunshine Coast will feature in an upcoming television series.
The second series of the detective drama Black Snow, which screens on Stan, is set in the Glass House Mountains.
Filming there wrapped up on the weekend, with sessions on the corner of Johnston and Rapkins road and on Johnston, Moffatt and Anderson roads.
Nearby residents were notified by letterbox drop.
Produced by Sydney-based Goalpost Pictures, Black Snow stars Travis Fimmel, known from Boy Swallows Universe and Vikings, as Detective James Cormack.
The first series, set in north Queensland, received a Logie nomination for most outstanding drama series and earned Fimmel two AACTA Award nominations.
In the second series, Detective Cormack investigates the disappearance of a young woman from her own 21st birthday party in 2003, and searches for his younger brother, who went missing when they were children.
Publicist Tracey Mair, speaking on behalf of the producer, said the filming had taken place at Glass House Mountains and on the Gold Coast.
“Our last season was filmed in Proserpine and Airlie Beach, and that sense of place is very important, and we were looking for something equally extraordinary and the Glass House Mountains is that,” she said.
“We love making TV in Queensland. The locations are extraordinary and everything’s very close. There’s wonderfully experienced and happy professionals, such a depth of talent and we get great assistance from Screen Queensland and the city of the Gold Coast.
“Filming has been incredible. We’ve had a little bit of bad weather to contend with filming has gone very well and everybody has loved the time that we’ve spent there.”
Glasshouse pineapple grower Steve Moffatt said the filming caused no problems.
“I drove right past at the time and they had their lights there,” he said.
Mr Moffatt was of the understanding that there was more than one film crew in the area, as he was told a commercial was being shot nearby.
He said cameras were common in the area.
“There’s always people taking wedding photos in the pineapples. They like the mountains in the background,” he said.
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