The 17th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival will take place October 8 – 12, 2009. The Hamptons Festival was founded to celebrate the making of any long, short, fiction and documentary independent films. In “Elvis and Anabelle” movie, Blake Lively stars as Anabelle and is one of the rising stars today.

Elvis and Annabelle wiki states that the film has won an award from the Newport Beach Film Festival for Achievement Award-Breakout Performance in 2008. In Elvis and Anabelle, every terrible tragedy brings about something equally miraculous. Groomed by her overly ambitious mother who had also previously been a Miss Texas Rose (Mary Steenburgen), Anabelle Leigh (Blake Lively) is on the road to winning the Miss Texas Rose tiara when she dies as a result of her eating disorder during a pageant. Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis (Max Minghella), an embittered young man whose sense of family duty and love for his ailing father (Joe Mantegna) keep him from following his dreams. When Anabelle is miraculously resurrected on Elvis’s embalming table the two unexpectedly connect and sparks fly. With the help of each other and Elvis’s father, they discover love, freedom, and happiness as the real world and their own demons threaten to force them apart. Anabelle was played by actress Blake Lively.

Main Casts of Elvis and Annabelle movie:
Max Minghella … Elvis
Blake Lively … Anabelle
Joe Mantegna … Charlie
Mary Steenburgen … Geneva
Keith Carradine … Jimmy

On the other hand, the Hamptons International Film Festival offers special presentations such as; a Breakthrough Performers program, which showcases up-and-coming acting talent (past participants include Emily Blunt and Blake Lively); “A Conversation With…”, an intimate Q&A session with a film luminary (past participants include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances McDormand, Sidney Lumet, Julian Schnabel, Isabella Rossellini, Gena Rowlands, and Robert Altman); and Films of Conflict & Resolution, which utilizes the power of cinema to increase understanding of the human realities of war and conflict. -hamptonsfilmfest.org

Meanwhile, Blake Lively – actress of 2007 film entitled “Elvis and Anabelle” is rumored to be one of the rising stars. Follow the interview to Blake Lively video at Hamptons Film Festival Interview below.

Blake Lively – Elvis and Annabelle Video