BRIMSTONE & GLORY – 3:30PM

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Saturday, February 3, 3:30 pm

Directed by: Viktor Jakovleski
Documentary, PG, 67 min.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles (Mexico/USA)

“Brimstone & Glory is community as catharsis, and you can’t stop staring in stupefied astonishment.” – Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine

“A movie that repays being seen on a big reflective screen, one on which the image is projected rather than one from which the image emanates.” – Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

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 (the patron saint of firework makers), conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, and the festival anchors a way of life built around the generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the town’s citizens, this extraordinary event is explosive celebration and unrestrained delight… combined with genuine peril.

Awards:

Won, Special Mention, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2017
Won, Best Documentary Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2017
Won, Special Citation, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, 2017
Won, Best Director/Best Picture, Austin Fantastic Fest, 2017