Durango Independent Film Festival Brings Back Walk of Fame

Second Annual Event To Be Held Saturday, September 24, 2011

Durango, CO – The Durango Independent Film Festival has scheduled its popular fun-raiser, themed the Walk of Fame, for Saturday, September 24, 2011. Last year’s event featured 7 venues and auctioned artistic-renditions of the letters in the word DURANGO combined with prize packages.

Said Joanie Fraughton, DIFF’s Executive Director: “We’ve learned from our first year and have some new twists to this year’s Walk of Fame.” According to Fraughton, this year’s “walkers” (party goers) will all start together at The Durango Arts Center. From there, walkers will split into guided tour groups who will lead the revelers to the additional venues of The Back Space Theatre (where films will be shown), Open Shutter Gallery, and The DAC Gallery. When finished with the walking tour, complete with food and drink and entertainment at each location, participants will reconvene at The Durango Arts Center for a unique live auction.

“We’ve entitled our live auction Let’s Make A Reel,” added Fraughton. “To complement our festival creative theme (Are you in?), auction items will include artist-designed vessels of all kinds (from childhood desks to letter boxes, trunks and others), filled with fabulous prizes. The bidders will not really know what’s INside! The winning bidders will vie for their bidding spot and their choice of these special and unique boxes.”

Tickets for the event are on sale now at durangofilm.org or by calling the Film Festival Office at 970.375.7779