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"  Courtesy of Smash Surf Productions &amp;quot;Moon River&amp;quot; plays on a desolate New York street at dawn. A woman in a little black dress, pearls, and sunglasses despite the hour, stares longingly into a shop window: Pilgrim Surf + Supply in Williamsburg. She carries a skateboard and wears Keds. This is not Breakfast at Tiffany&amp;#039;s but the trailer for the Smash Film Festival, a surf-based movie series that premiered in Brooklyn last night and screens films throughout the weekend. &amp;quot;Part of surf culture is experimentation and joyful creation,&amp;quot; said Julie Gilhart, a member of the selection committee, an avid surfer, and eco-focused fashion consultant. &amp;quot;In the surf world, there is a real celebration of individual style in everything from the boards you ride to how you dress on the beach.&amp;quot; New York surfer Tyler Breuer produced the event, intent on using art and film to create a forum for the global surf community. The Smash Festival includes eight films screening this weekend in Brooklyn (tonight), Rockaway Beach (Saturday), and Montauk (Sunday). &amp;quot;The time was right to do a festival in the wake of Hurricane Sandy,&amp;quot; said Breuer, the founder of Smash production company who volunteered each weekend as part of the relief efforts. &amp;quot;A lot of horrible things happened, but one of the positives was that it brought a lot of great people together and [I wanted] to keep that positive vibe going.&amp;quot; The first night of the festival raised funds for Wave for Water, a hurricane relief organization, and debuted &amp;quot;Sea Change,&amp;quot; a Wax Magazine art exhibition that chronicled the Long Island coast\u2014from surfing to disaster relief\u2014over the last year. Some notable films include Rio Breaks, a story about Brazilian adolescents in the slums who look to surfing as a way to a better life, and Learning to Breathe, which chronicles California surfing legend Anthony Ruffo&amp;#039;s decent into drug addiction and path to recovery. Justin Krumb&amp;#039;s Minds in the Water also premiers tonight, and focuses on global oceanic activism through the lens of pro surfer Dave Rastovich. For those who think of New York as a concrete jungle, the Smash Festival is a reminder that the city is still an island, with a subculture of people who swap their business suits for wetsuits and take to the water. Or as Breuer puts it, &amp;quot;I want to get people stoked and get them exposed to something they normally wouldn&amp;#039;t [see].&amp;quot; For tickets and more information visit smashsurf.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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