Gee Whiz, a film about Grady Auvil

Filmmaker Jamie Howell is making a documentary about tree fruit industry legend, the late great Grady Auvil. Auvil, an orchardist in Orondo, Washington, was active in the industry until he died in 1998 at the age of 93. He helped pioneer Granny Smith, Gala, and Fuji apples in the Pacific Northwest. Howell, who runs Howell at the Moon Productions in Wenatchee, Washington, has already made two films about the tree fruit industry. The first, which he made with Guy Evans of Chelan, was entitled Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer. Released in 2003, it depicted the struggles […]