Luso and Starmaker shoot for the stars

By Kimberly Johans
Published in The Macau Daily Times
September 26, 2007, page 5 (755 words)

Luso began the show, shooting low on the water before rising up with the increasing tempo of the accopanying music, before it seemed like a barrage turning into a fan that fan the sky.
Then, slow bursts of red and gold stars followed before the lot that followed seemed to end up in every direction before turning into defined stars twinkling in the night sky.
A multitude of red stars flew up and dispersed, before falling in a rain of gold.
Suddenly a shower of silver stars fell followed by more a more defined shower of gold that seemed more gently in its descent.
Multi-coloured stars rose like a fan before burning into gold one after another and red fireflys seemed to appear out of nowhere.
Then, small bursts fell like mini showers from the sky in tune to the slow music before the wind carried them off, gently dissipating as they went.

Grupo Luso Pirotecnia, Portuguese fireworks team with point to prove

By Kimberly Johans
Published in The Macau Daily Times
September 26, 2007, page 4 (1,037 words)

Portugal’s Grupo Luso Pirotecnia had a lot to prove last night, not simply because their past displays have been judged winners, but because of their new Macau venture.
Speaking to the Macau Daily Times about what opening a local branch means to them, Vitor Machado, General Manager and Artistic Director said, “everyone we’ve spoken to in the industry that’s involved with entertainment of fireworks in Macau is very happy that they have a local solution.”
With the company, Macau Fireworks, having been opened since April, he admitted that the beginning was always difficult, “because we have to prove that we can do what we say we can do.”
But the reaction has been positive, despite not every door being opened just yet.
And the company has some exciting endeavours in the works over the next few months, including what Melanie Cagnon, International Business Manager for Luso alluded to as “one of the key events in Macau, like the festival and the Grand Prix.”