The American television crew for the programme Three Sheets was in Gore filming the segment for three days recently, Mr Geddes said.
The programme runs on the AOL network and Mr Geddes described Three Sheets as a travel show that centred on indigenous alcohol, presented in a light-hearted manner.
‘‘It seems to have a following. It's fronted by Los Angeles comedian Zane Lamprey,'' Mr Geddes said.
‘‘It was very light-hearted - it had a comic angle to it, which I think is very popular with their audience,'' he said.
The film crew travel the world looking for interesting beverages to showcase and the culture surrounding them.
The film crew came to Gore via Greece where it was filming a segment about ouzo then it visited Tahiti taking a look at a pineapple-based spirit, he said.
‘‘They came to Gore to look at Hokonui whisky. They were interested in whisky because they had produced an episode about moonshine in Kentucky and had filmed in Scotland,'' he said.
The episode in Scotland featured whisky brewed in the Highlands.
As well as profiling Gore's moonshine history, the film crew also looked at how that unique history was incorporated into the Moonshiners' Festival, Mr Geddes said.
‘‘[The moonshine history] is a point of difference that Gore has, that attracted them [the film crew],'' he said.
As well as capturing Gore's moonshine history, the film crew visited a Speight's brewery and Central Otago wineries while in New Zealand, he said.
Three Sheets had a core audience of 10 million and there had been more than 130 episodes of the programme made, he said.
The airing of the Gore episode in the US could have positive spin-offs for the district as much of the target audience was made up of younger people who tended to have the money to travel, he said.
