Genre: Neo Noir Thriller.
Written by Owen Sheers.
A Co-Production with Matador Pictures and Ffilm Cymru Wales.

A Visit to America is set in New York in 1953 and follows a troubled private eye as he trails a British poet on an assignment for TIME Magazine, whom the poet is suing for libel.

The private eye’s life is in personal and professional crisis as he is dragged into the early McCarthy witch hunts through his army past coming back to haunt him. As he carries out his assignment his exposure to the poet’s world and work begin to exert an influence on the crucial moral and familial choices facing him.

Dylan Thomas died on 9th November 1953 in the Chelsea Hotel. The trial never came to court.

The script is currently in development. CEO of Western Edge Pictures, Vaughan Sivell says “It’s really exciting to be working with Owen Sheers on a project that will showcase such a great Welsh writing talent and highlight Thomas’ impact in the States in a really exciting and unusual way – it feels very much in the rebellious spirit of Thomas himself.”

More information: www.westernedgepictures.co.uk/on-the-slate