[4] Past festival attendees include Steve Buscemi (Trees Lounge, Armageddon), William Baldwin (Backdraft), Edie Falco (The Sopranos, Judy Berlin), Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Perfect Storm), Ralph Macchio (The Outsiders, The Karate Kid), William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption), Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

), Tony Lo Bianco (The French Connection), Sean Young (Blade Runner), Gianni Russo (The Godfather), Ed Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club), Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull), Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Up), Larry Romano (A Bronx Tale), Robert Clohessy (Blue Bloods), Phyllis Somerville (Little Children, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Anthony Rapp (Rent, Star Trek: Discovery), James Naughton (Planet of the Apes) and others.

[5] Notable films that have screened at the festival include The Hotel Manor Inn (1997), Billy's Balloon (1998), Falling Sky (1998), The Hunter's Moon (1999),[6] The Waiting Game (1999), The Pirates of Central Park (2001),[7] L.I.E.

(2001), Returning Mickey Stern (2002), Malevolence (2003), Dorian Blues (2004), The Conscientious Objector (2004), The Insurgents (2006), Knocking (2006), The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2007),[8] Anytown (2009), Eat Me!

(2009),[9] Failing Better Now (2009),[10] As If I Am Not There (2010), Bereavement (2010),[11] Dimensions (2011), Strings (2011),[12] Broadway's Finest (2012),[13] Junction (2012), Theresa Is a Mother (2012), The Human Race (2013), Naked (2013),[14] The Puritans (2013), Bridge and Tunnel (2014),[15] The David Dance (2014),[16] The Historian (2014), Tom in America (2014), Detours (2016), The Hollow (2016),[17] Red (2016), Whoever Was Using This Bed (2016), (Romance) in the Digital Age (2017), The Valley (2017), Pickings (2018), Abigail (2019),[18] After Class (2019), Bone Cage (2020), Manasanamaha (2020) and Tango Shalom (2021).