Edinburgh
I've just applied to my first festival for this film, the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It's very reassuring, in a world where film festivals crop up like toadstools after a rain, to submit to one that has been in operation since 1947. I have some history with the city, not only having visited but having a grandparent (my paternal grandfather, who died when my father was a young boy) who was Edinburgh born and bred.
Scots are unmoved by tourists who come to Scotland for ancestral reasons; they think it's silly. I understand, being generally unsentimental, yet I always feel a bit of ethnic pride when I'm north of the border. I hope I have an excuse to go to Scotland this summer.