10 of the world’s most fearsome firework displays

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(CNN)With technical names like "mines," "barrages" and "Z-firing fan cakes," public fireworks displays tend to promise much more than they deliver in the way of life-threatening thrills.

Laws in most Western countries govern almost every aspect of the pyrotechnician's art -- from size, shape and relative loudness to training, insurance, and safety drills.

But some communities still take these measures with a cavalier pinch of saltpeter.

It's the latter that captivated American brothers Jesse and Jeremy Veverka.

The filmmakers spent five years traveling the world to document places where homemade fireworks are still sent screeching into excited crowds of onlookers, drums of high-explosives are playfully directed down village streets and sky rockets fly so high they present a threat to commercial aviation.

The journey culminated in "Passfire" -- a 2016 documentary that chronicles ear-ringing and eyebrow-singeing fireworks displays across six continents.

As one Indian pyrotechnician told the documentary makers: "A fireworks master is an artist! Anyone can be a cameraman, but to become a fireworker you need five elements: the talent of an artist, the hand of a sculptor, the heart of a poet, the eye of a painter, the courage of a warrior."

Filmmaker Jesse Veverka walks us through this incendiary -- and sometimes deadly -- pyrotechnic world.

Yasothon, Thailand

For those who prefer their fireworks of a gentler nature, Myanmar's balloon festival uses candle-powered rice paper balloons that loft slowly into the sky.

Unlike hand-held Thai and Chinese lanterns, these balloons can be upwards of 25 feet tall.

Racks of firecrackers are sometimes attached to the balloons to spice up the show -- held in central Taunggyi city around October or November.

"Sometimes the balloons crash and there have been some accidents there," adds Veverka.

Firework balloons, Brazil

Brazil adopted a similar fire-balloon tradition that made its way from Asia to South America, thanks to Portuguese explorers.

In cities like So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, fireworks are carried into the sky by paper balloons covered in elaborate folk art.

In Brazil, these "festas juninas" -- or "June festivals" -- have the added thrill of being illegal.

"The government outlawed these festivals in 1996 but there are still clubs that practice it -- it's a bit of an underground thing," Veverka says.

"What happens is that people meet in a field, they set off their balloon fireworks and then leave."

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