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.

Produced by David A. Hughes and David Moores of Merseyside’s Red Union Films, “On the Sea” was ultimately made for under £1 million ($1.36 million).

Walsh admits that scaling back came with trade-offs, but her producers embraced the challeng

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