thesandpaper.net - Lighthouse International Film Fest
‘Salad Days,’ shot in Montauk, N.Y., screens Thursday night at the Lighthouse International Film Fest.
Every year since its inception, the Lighthouse International Film Festival has made a concerted effort to include a selection of surf films.
Since the first surfing filmmakers in the 1960s, surf cinema has been a huge part of surfing culture. In decades past, traveling surf films would play for rowdy crowds at local fire halls and later at bars.
They occasionally transcended surfing into mainstream culture. Bruce Brown’s action documentary “The Endless Summer” was a huge hit among mainstream audiences in the 1960s.