TRR photo by David Hulse Actor and festival host Richard Castellano, left, hams it up with fellow Analyze This performer Leo Rossi. (Click for larger image)

By CHRIS CONROY

NARROWSBURG - The red carpets are rolled up, the lights are dimmed and the films have been put safely away in their canisters.

The second Narrowsburg International Independent Film Festival (NIIFF) has ended.

Starting amid harsh reminders of last year's financial mistakes, NIIFF 2000 began with a bang. An acting seminar featuring special guest William Forsythe, Leo Rossi, Richard Castellano and Brian Vincent nearly packed the second floor of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance on August 2. The rest of the week seminars on writing, producing and women in film drew respectable crowds, though none quite as large at the first.

Screenings of films, short and feature length, foreign and domestic, kept people at the Tusten Theater from morning till night. According to Jocelyne Castellano, many only purchased tickets for one or two of the films, as opposed to the pass that would allow them into everything showing during the day.