Oscilloscope has released a new trailer for the upcoming documentary Brimstone & Glory, directed by Viktor Jakovleski and produced by Benh Zeitlin and Court 13 (Beasts of the Southern Wild). Zeitlin also worked on the score for the film, which definitely carries a resemblance to Beasts, certainly not a bad thing. The film takes a look at the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Mexico.
Brimstone & Glory will be opening in theaters October 27th.
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. More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, making the festival more than revelry for revelry’s sake. It is a celebration that anchors a way of life built around a generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the people of Tultepec, the National Pyrotechnic Festival is explosive celebration, unrestrained delight and real peril. Plunging headlong into the fire, BRIMSTONE & GLORY honors the spirit of Tultepec’s community and celebrates celebration itself.
