Filmed during the disastrous growing season of 2009, “Goranson Farm: An Uncertain Harvest” follows Jan Goranson and Rob Johanson, their family and the community that surrounds them as they struggle against the worst growing season in their 25 years farming. 

William Kunitz spent 2009 and into 2010 following the family to produce a film that takes the viewer from the joy of spring planting through more than twenty days of rain in June and into a battle with late potato blight, the same disease that caused the Irish potato famine.

The film is a testament to the skill, tenacity and dogged determination of this family to survive an uncertain harvest, and to continue to serve the community that supports them.

William Kunitz has been making films since he was fourteen and worked as a producer/director for Ad Media in Augusta in the late 70s and as an independent producer for political campaigns and nonprofits. In 2005 he produced “Colonial Pemaquid, A Remembrance.”

“Goranson Farm: An Uncertain Harvest” had its premiere at the Camden International Film Festival in September. It will be shown on MPBN Thursday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. and repeated Saturday, January 5 at 11 a.m. 

For more on the film and to view selected scenes, visit www.goransonfarmfilm.org. Read a review of the film here.