The FOOL Serious are the officially unofficial un-organization of the Seattle International Film Festival‘s passholders. While not officially a part of SIFF, we are staunch festival supporters and consider ourselves to be the festival’s ambassadors.

The ‘FOOL Serious’ (a word play on the “Full Series” movie pass at SIFF) are a truly fanatical group of cinephiles that gather throughout the festival to share our mutual love of cinema while standing in lines, congregating in the lobby or posting our comments online. Our passion is sharing our enthusiasm and engaging in discussions of all things cinematic and FOOLish!

During the festival, we vote on film awards that are separate from the official SIFF awards. Past awards are posted on this website, as are instructions for voting a Fool Serious ballot.

Aside from this website, we have a Google Group for sharing SIFF news and other movie info during the festival and throughout the year. The Google Group requires membership. If you’re not registered with the Google Group, here’s how.

We also host a FOOLish Facebook page which is open to the public and where we post some of our reviews and public comments.

Finding a FOOL is easy, aside from a slightly pale complexion (from sitting in movies all day) we are the ones standing in the passholder line, wearing FOOL buttons and passionately discussing the films we’ve seen or are about to see. If you are new to festival, introduce yourself to a FOOL and we’ll gladly help guide your way. If you want to know the buzz about a film, we encourage you to jump in and join the conversation… But when the lights dim, it’s time to hush down, settle in your seat, and let yourself go into the dark to see the light.