Are You a FOOL?
The Fool Serious (a word play on “Full Series”) are the full series pass holders of the Seattle International Film Festival. We are a truly fanatical group of cinephiles that gather to share their love of cinema throughout the festival while standing in lines, in the theater or online. Our passion is to discuss all thing cinematic and FOOLish!
The FOOLs are “the officially unofficial un-organization of the Seattle International Film Festival's full series pass holders”. We have our own website, online discussion forum and year round events celebrating SIFF and the world of cinema. While not officially a part of the SIFF Group, are the festival’s staunchest ambassadors and greatest supporters.
Are you a fool? Well, if you're serious about the movies (with some maybe even saying foolishly so), then you have the makings of a FOOL. To become an official FOOL all you need is a FULL series pass or greater* ... If you qualify, sign-in, fill out your FOOLish Bona Fides and join us in our FOOLish love of film.
*You also qualify to be a FOOL if you have a Platinum Pass, press pass, or have been a loyal SIFF volunteer or staff member.
E-mail Discussion List (Listserv)
Fool Serious has a dedicated email list. For late breaking news, reviews, rants and rumors, sign up for the Fool Serious Discussion group by entering your email address into the text field and clicking the Join Now button below.
An archive of past messages is available on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fool-serious-discussion/messages.
Activities
One of the main activities of Fool Serious is our annual balloting. You may have seen us during the final weekend distributing and collecting ballots. Every year on the final weekend of the Festival, we invite all passholders (and only passholders) to rate the films they saw, on the assumption that the best comparative data comes from people who have lots of films to compare. Past Fool Serious Awards may be viewed here.
2008 Fool Serious Awards Posted to Foolserious.org
Tue, 06/24/2008 - 15:55 — John GarnettThe 2008 Fool Serious Awards have been posted to foolserious.org alongside the other years' awards.
How to tell if you are a "certified" FOOL
Tue, 06/24/2008 - 11:19 — John GarnettThere is a new way to determine if you are a certified member of foolserious.org or not. After signing in to http://foolserious.org, click on "My Account" in the left menu bar. There is a new field in the "History" section of your user profile which has a heading of "Certified?" and has a value of either "yes" or "no".
The only thing that being certified gets you currently is the ability to see the FOOLs' Faces page here http://foolserious.org/viewfaces . There may be more benefits added in the future.
My blog
Tue, 06/17/2008 - 17:13 — richwI maintain a separate blog at seattlefilmfest.blogspot.com. Rather than trying to maintain both feel free to jump over there if you're curious.
redirect
Fri, 05/23/2008 - 12:47 — ironymaidenthe new site looks fantastic. i love the idea of integrated blogging, but i already have a site that i will fail to keep current once i start watching films at 4:00 today :)
i do try to do capsule reviews, etc. my blog is general, but you can follow the siff posts by their tags.
siff 2008: http://ironymaiden.livejournal.com/tag/siff2k8
siff (general): http://ironymaiden.livejournal.com/tag/siff
movies (includes any post that has to do with films): http://ironymaiden.livejournal.com/tag/movies
FOOLs' Faces Project
The goal of the FOOLs' Faces Project is to produce a book of information with one page about each Fool Serious member so that Fools may learn a little about each other and recognize each other in person. Here are the FOOLs' faces that have been submitted thus far:
