Beyond Baklava: The Fairy Tale Story of Sylvia's Baklava (2007) Reviews

• The Story Behind this Movie!

  sunflowermoon0072006-06-18

  hey folks, this is the movie's director writing you directly from Tinseltown.. wanted to give a bit of a background on this most unusual, colorful, avante-garde movie collage. first of all, I'm an actress. I'd been wanting to document my grandmother Sylvia's Holocaust stories for some time.. but like anyone, kept getting busy with life & thought there's all the time in the world later.. (been there?) Then around New Years post 9/11, I was back East for the holidays and due to airport security at Newark, missed my flight (back then you needed to be at the airport something like 6 hours in advance it seemed) !!!!!!!! so, I missed my flight and had an extra day out in good ole' Jersey, with no plans... hey, time to shoot that archival footage on Sylvia! If only she'd cooperate... Ever try to shoot a movie with a reluctant movie star..? Anyway, this whole project started pretty innocently with a home camcorder and a recycled tape. Someone saw it and they liked it and we re-shot on a better camera and got carried away and ... 4 months and 65 hours of footage later... it was time to start editing... well, that's another story, will tell you some other time..! Hope you like the movie - we wanted to put out something that has some solid positive messages, keeping its original essence intact, while entertaining enough so it's fun to watch! The past four years with this project, it's been a huge labor of love and it's been a long and winding road, making this happen. But we have been very lucky -- lots of wonderful people appeared in our path just when they were needed, and offered their talents and expertise to fine tune the piece into a real cool final edit. Enjoy! and do post your comments (especially if they are sweet ones!) Hugs!!!!!

• Beyond Baklava

  fck992011-05-25

  Hark the Herald Angeles sing, its glorious and new , born from with in. World Peace and harmony gets every chance in this film. I wonder how long it will take. ? World peace and Harmony ? I love it. Go for it.. there are two versions of this fill that I know of. I rented the spicy version on amazon just last week end. Got out the pop corn , popped a bunch and sat there with ice water watching the flick , and all of its wit. So with all of that said please rent it. Indeed the World will be a better place. Now if you want to contact me personally on this matter please email me. Also if the Third version of animated film come out or gets uncovered in the distant future make sure to come back and watch that version too.

• Truly Excellent!!!!

  red-hummingbird22014-09-09

  What a great, comprehensive underground cult art film... how this girl pulled it off must have to do with the divine and magic.... Congratulations are due to you from so many of your peer and audience alike. We loved the characters... Wendy was delightful... Sylvia very endearing... and of course Estelle, her friend... good old doggy Cappuccino... Harold the big guy... everyone in the interviews... Wendys momma and poppa and friends.. Of course Rasputin and Ramona and the Ghost of Atur... the Casting Director.... Harold and Harry the acting teacher.... so well crafted. Great work, girl! oh and the ending was truly a delight solutions for world peace ending the crazy addictions to baklava total win win if there is such a thing world peace wining the academy award even the dancing statue of liberty this girl's imagination is boundless as the sea.