Pride of Place

Kim Longinotto graduated from the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England, with this film, coming to terms with a painful episode from her past. Longinotto, who co-directed the film with Dorothea Gazidis, was sent to a girls’ boarding school by her parents when she was a teenager. The school, located in an old, isolated castle in Buckinghamshire, ran its own mini-government, with bizarre rules, inedible food, and punishments which were absurd and unfair.