Notice a film crew in Burlington? Here's what they're doing.

A local production crew is shooting a pilot of a new show in and around Burlington. 

The filming for "Zodiac" began late last week and will continue through the rest of this week, Denis O'Brien, Executive Producer at Verde Group Films, told the Burlington Free Press. 

So far, scenes have been filmed at the Rock Point School, the 1 Main Street train station, and the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont in Burlington. The crew has also filmed at Plouffe's Farm in Charlotte. 

"Vermont has been lovely to us," O'Brien said. "It's just amazing all the doors that opened up for us and people that wanted to help us." 

O'Brien said that "Zodiac," written and directed by Jack Skyyler and Alex Zinzopoulos, is a coming-of-age drama about an all-girls boarding school (filmed at the Rock Point School) and the Greek gods. The pilot is called "Gemini," and if the show is picked up, each episode would be a different zodiac sign, he said. 

The pilot follows two young women — one of the girls, who is bullied, lives at the boarding school and wakes up one day to discover she has a psychic link to an unconscious and unidentified girl in a nearby rural field. Then, the girl at the boarding school has a Gemini zodiac sign appear suddenly on her arm, O'Brien said.

"We find out at the end of the pilot that the Greek gods are involved," O'Brien said. "The premise of the show is Hades trying to get the world back and collect these girls of the zodiac, and the all-girls school becomes the background for the show."

Much of the filming on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will take place at the Rock Point School. O'Brien said the film crew has selected a large group of current and former Vermont high school students to be extras.

Vermont actors have also been cast in the pilot, including Kent Cassella, Grace Experience, Paul Burroughs, Dennis McSorley, R.W. Martin, and Tarzan Jenkins.

After filming is done, O'Brien said the production company will be presenting the pilot to potential buyers. If it's picked up, there could be another three to six episodes--or an entire season. If that happens, O'Brien hopes more filming could happen in Vermont.

"A lot of these get picked up on what they call short, so if they pick it up and they do three, that would be a big win for us because we would then be able to really produce three beautiful episodes and it would get a launch," O'Brien said. "I think we have a really good chance of that because of the cast and the unique story that these two guys wrote." 

Contact Elizabeth Murray at 802-651-4835 or emurray@freepressmedia.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizMurrayBFP.