Pyros: Painting with Fire — Season 1
From Berlin to Seoul and Rio to Montreal, this explosive docuseries follows the globe-trotting and thrill-seeking artists and technicians of Montreal's Groupe Fiatlux-Ampleman ('GFA').
About this season
From Berlin to Seoul and Rio to Montreal, this explosive docuseries follows the globe-trotting and thrill-seeking artists and technicians of Montreal's Groupe Fiatlux-Ampleman ('GFA').
Episodes (12)
1. Quebec City Carnival
Aired 22 April 2014 • 30 min
Tonight is a breakout opportunity for the GFA. They have won the bid to open the world's biggest winter festival, the Quebec City Carnival. The festival holds a special place in the hearts of the GFA team. A tradition going back 100 years, it will be a challenging show that has to be timed perfectly to live music.
2. Congo
10.0Aired 29 April 2014 • 30 min
The boys storm the Congo and fight to fire a show while all hell breaks lose around them. With his brother, Mathieu, Philippe returns to the Congo after swearing to never return, to help set up a massive show to celebrate their independence day.
3. Istanbul
Aired 6 May 2014 • 30 min
Phil and Eric tangle with a rowdy crew from from Australia. Along with this other team, they must pull off a humongous firework show arming a 1.5 kilometer bridge. Their biggest test in Istanbul is about to begin.
4. Berlin
Aired 13 May 2014 • 30 min
When GFA competes on the international stage, the gloves come off. They are outnumbered and outgunned, but are still betting they can take home a trophy. The little team from Montreal is determined to hold its own.
5. Rio and Quebec City
Aired 20 May 2014 • 30 min
An international double header in two hemispheres has GFA reeling. Can they pull off the biggest night of the year, New Years eve, on home turf and Rio simultaneously?
6. Valencia and Barcelona
Aired 27 May 2014 • 30 min
All hell breaks loose on the streets of Valencia. Philippe and Sabastien, two of GFA's stars, are going on a mission to the Mecca of fireworks. They'll be overseas and possibly in over their heads...
7. St. Jean Baptiste
Aired 3 July 2014 • 30 min
Two days. 17 shows. And GFA is off the rails. St. Jean Baptiste day in Quebec inspires more passion and emotion than any other holiday. The celebration is going to blow the roof off every town in the province.
8. Vancouver and France
Aired 10 June 2014 • 30 min
Sebastien launches an all out assault on Vancouver's waterfront. Benoit and Phillepe are in France, in their first international competition. It's been hard as their rivals seem to have way more pyro than they are supposed to.
9. Deux-Montagnes and Montreal
Aired 17 June 2014 • 30 min
Sebastien and Phillipe get to play with fire as they launch a field full of pyro for Canada Day by hand. And the biggest fireworks competition in the world takes our team on a wild ride.
10. Campeche, Mexico and Blackpool, England
Aired 24 June 2014 • 30 min
Sebastien and Phillipe find out what it takes to shoot pyro in Mexico. And in Britain, GFA takes a licking and keeps on kicking as they try to launch pyro off a windswept pier.
11. The Valley of Eternal Rain
Aired 1 July 2014 • 30 min
This time on pyros, its a vertical challenge when Maude and her team take the on Montomorency Falls. A daring fireworks display with water all around them. It is the pyro's worst enemy and it has them surrounded.
12. Seoul, South Korea
Aired 1 July 2014 • 30 min
GFA is entering and entirely new world of pyrotechnics. Philippe, Eric, and Benoit are helping to stage a show in Seoul South Korea that is going to blow them away. The stage is set for the biggest night of fireworks that the Pyros have ever seen.