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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/38421/full/38421/best-deal-in-town-sfjffs-reel-pass/ <br /><br /> <b>Best deal in town? SFJFF’s Reel Pass!</b> <br /> Thursday, June 25, 2009 | by rachel leibold <br /><br /><div class="capDivLeft" style="width: 425px;"><img alt="esther blueberger, keisha castle-hughes" height="202" src="/images/uploads/blog_art/0609/esther_blueberger_425.jpg" title="esther_blueberger_425" width="425" /> <div class="caption">For $40, you can see the SFJFF's opening night movie, "Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger" - and 70 others.</div> </div> <p> </p> <p>Are you 25 or under? Are you thinking, "Gee, I'd love to see some movies at the <a href="http://fest.sfjff.org/" target="_blank">San Francisco Jewish Film Festival</a>, but I'm a journalist/barista/<a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-06-03/news/funemployment/" target="_blank">funemployed</a> and don't have the cash?"</p> <p>Enter <a href="http://tickets.sfjff.org/films/41652" target="_blank">Reel Pass</a>. For $40*, 25-and-unders can see all the movies they can possibly stomach/skip work for, AND attend all special programs**, including the swanktastic <a href="http://fest.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=1000001" target="_blank">Opening Bash</a> at the Swedish American Hall. This is seriously the most insane deal ever (even better than those $10 Gevalia coffeemakers). In contrast, a single ticket to one film is $12, and the all-festival pass (the same as the Reel Pass, just for people over 25) is $225!! Tickets to the Opening Bash alone are $75!!!!</p> <p>If you're not sure why you should buy a Reel Pass because you have no idea how awesome the festival is going to be this year, I have two words for you: <a href="http://fest.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=4816" target="_blank">Israeli sumo</a>. (Plus 70 other amazing films from all over the world, and neat-sounding events like <a href="http://fest.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=1000006" target="_blank">Sumo and Sake</a> - the full lineup is <a href="http://fest.sfjff.org/film/search?search=&category[]=event&category[]=festival_title&sort=title" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p> <p>Here's how sweet this Reel Pass is, if you're not convinced yet. *breaks into Billy Mays mode* Last year a friend of mine used her Reel Pass to see 11 movies and two screenings of Israeli TV shows. At the regular rate, that would have cost her $156. She paid only $40. THAT'S NUTS.</p> <p>People, if you buy the Reel Pass and <em>only</em> go to the Opening Bash and nothing else, you've saved $35. If you don't go to the bash but see just three movies the entire festival, plus you find $4 on the ground outside the Castro Theatre, you will have broken even. If you see four movies, you're already up $8. I completely fail at math***, and I <em>still</em> know how good a deal this is!</p> <p>This is my last year to qualify for the Reel Pass. I've never been to the SFJFF, and I somehow never even knew about the Reel Pass, but this year I am buying a Reel Pass and seeing <em>every movie I possibly can</em>. Who's with me?</p> <p> </p> <p>* Plus a $6 service charge.</p> <p>** The only thing the Reel Pass - and the all-festival pass - does not cover is the <a href="http://fest.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=1000012" target="_blank">Rockin' Puppet Mayhem show</a>. But I'll probably still go see it.</p> <p>*** Yes, I realize I'm not calculating in the service charge, but a liberal arts degree and two lower-level statistics courses will only get you so far.</p>

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