Brimstone & Glory

About the movie

The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up­-and­-comers create their own rowdy, lo­fi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than-life papier­-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow up in all directions.
Brimstone & Glory has been awarded Best Documentary Feature at several International Film Festivals, and unanimously praised by the critics.
“Mesmerizing” – SF Weekly
“Structured like a fireworks display, with only a handful of small reprieves throughout, Brimstone & Glory naturally builds to a marvelous grand finale.” – IndieWire
“Captures the thrill, the joy, the wonder of looking up into the night sky and seeing something uniting, something bigger than all of us.” – Combustible Celluloid