Heather Condo
Heather Condo is a Mi’gmaq from the community of Gesgapegiag born in Maria, Québec, in 1971. She was adopted and grew up in Massachusetts. Heather moved back to Gesgapegiag in 2005 where several of her family members reside. She likes hunting, fishing, painting and travelling. Heather has talked about making a film about her partner’s gift for quite some time. Her son encouraged her to make this film with Wapikoni mobile. After having had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, My Father's Tools has continued to shine at numerous festivals: from Cannes to the Berlinale, from the Seattle International Film Festival to imagineNATIVE, Regard, DOXA and more than 50 others. She recently took part in the production of the documentary series Gespe'gewa'gi: The Last Land, broadcasted on APTN, which takes us into the daily lives of Listuguj's Mi'gmag fishermen.
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My Father's Tools
Taking a cinéma-vérité approach, filmmaker Heather Condo simply documents the art of weaving black ash rib baskets, a tradition handed down from generation to generation. With no voice-over or dialogue, the film focuses on the work of the director's partner, Stephen Jerome, his talent and the attention to detail involved in making these baskets. The result is both a physical and spiritual exper...
My Father's Tools
Taking a cinéma-vérité approach, filmmaker Heather Condo simply documents the art of weaving black ash rib baskets, a tradition handed down from generation to generation. With no voice-over or dialogue, the film focuses on the work of the director's partner, Stephen Jerome, his talent and the attention to detail involved in making these baskets. The result is both a physical and spiritual exper...
