For Helen Walsh, place comes first.
“Place is always my starting point. It’s an active force that shapes and informs our identities right throughout our lives,” said the novelist-turned-director, whose sophomore feature “On the Sea” world premieres in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Following her 2015 debut, “The Violators” – which also bowed at Edinburgh and earned her a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit recognition – writer-director and award winning novelist Walsh returns to the festival with another intimate, place-rooted drama.