MAY 29, 2005 --

LPR attended the Sixth Semi-Annual Home Film Festival, presented by Greg Segal, last week, at two venues -- the Sugar Lounge in the Tribeca section of Manhattan, May 26, and the Spider Club in Avalon, at Sixth Avenue and 20th Street.

This festival offers the talents of young filmmakers who produce quality short films on limited budgets.

The films screened on May 25 that LPR was able to view were Elan Glasser's "Induction", Jeff Giordano's "Among Garbage and Flowers," Ole R. B.
Takanashi-Gran's "Action Anton," Duncan Roger's "The Reader," Theseus Roche's "Funny Things," James Oxford's "Sharp Card," and Lesley-Anne Morrison's "W.M.D"

"Sharp Card" is a glimpse of the future that is perhaps somewhat closer at hand, if in in milder form than shown in the film, for those of us who call credit card companies and do not have our account
number ready.

Mr. Glasser shows two college graduates
going for a Vietnam War era physical. Mr. Giordano, in his first film, offered an interesting and amusing documentary about two sanitation men in Williamstown,
New Jersey. The song, performed Olga Meridez, in "Funny Things," ought to be in a Broadway show.

"The Reader" is a touching vignette featuring Elizabeth Franz as a blind woman and Morgan Hallett in the title
role. Mr. Takanashi-Gran is a Norwegian director who works on tv series in Europe and brought to the festival his black and white film about an action hero that was photographed in evenings in Norway, after the actors finished work. "The Reader" won best film and Elizabeth Franz best
actress.

The May 26 screenings included "Salute," about a mobster who makes a fatal mistake, "The Day of the Grackle," suburban man vs, flying pest, "Six Floors
of Pure Glass," -- tension between two architects," The Last Laugh," Vadim Epstein's macabre film about an
ambitious comic.

Also screened, but not in competition, May 26 was John Gallagher's new TV pilot, "The Acting Class, with a cast including Heidi Kristoffer, James Gilmartin, Kevin Hersh and Emily Rome Mudd.

Eleven films were on the festival bill each
evening. For more on this noteworthy semi-annual NYC event, please visit the NYC Home Film Festival website, via the link on the right.

Greg Segal, John Gallagher and American Idol's Mario Vasquez.

Mario Vasquez and Heidi Kristoffer, of "The Acting Class."