Feature film in active production
The Casebook of Morgan Elliot: The Sign of Three
An original dieselpunk noir espionage thriller set in a reimagined London in 1936, where the future has arrived early and brought trouble with it.
About the story
She's a riddle... Wrapped in a mystery... Inside... an enigma.
London, 1936. The old King is dead. The new King reigns from the bedroom, with champagne as policy and adultery as statecraft. The Nazi shadow lengthens while Whitehall practises desperate optimism.
Morgan Elliot calls herself a private investigator. In truth, she is Whitehall's undocumented fixer: a codebreaker, intelligence operative and weapon of last resort.
When a spoilt American heiress leaves Morgan's partner and a German mathematician dead, the trail leads into the glittering machinery of the Second Great Exhibition and a conspiracy above the paygrade of the impoverished British Establishment.
Concealed behind the promise of progress, a global consortium of industrialists is already devising the next world war as an investment strategy: investment in weapons, data and the technology to classify, control and eliminate populations.
Morgan must crack the Sign of Three before mass murder becomes the most profitable enterprise on earth.
Inside the storyworld
Dispatches from The Casebook of Morgan Elliot
Short glimpses into an alternative 1936 London, where technology has arrived early, Europe is sliding towards war, and private investigator Morgan Elliot is rarely far from the trouble.
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2 dispatchesHelp bring The Sign of Three to the screen
Two women, two laptops and the cloud. We’re making Morgan Elliot’s first feature, one production sprint at a time.
The storyworld is built and production is underway. Your support helps turn that world into completed shots, scenes and sequences, funding the generation credits and specialist tools we use to make and finish the film.
Our next £500 will help fund the next production sprint, contributing towards an estimated £15,000 video-generation budget for the feature.
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Building the Feature
The Sign of Three is being produced shot by shot through discrete production sprints.
We are developing and stress-testing emerging AI assisted workflows across image, video, performance, sound and post-production. These are integrated with established filmmaking craft in an ethical, artist-led workflow for ambitious cinema at scale.
The visual language, storyworld and AI assisted workflow are established. Production is continuing towards completion, finishing, festivals and distribution.
Inside the Storyworld
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Key Personnel
- Written and directed by
- Fiona Bavinton
- Produced by
- Clare Cahill, Fiona Bavinton
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Current Status
In active production as a feature film. The visual language, storyworld and initial AI assisted workflow are established, with production continuing towards completion, finishing, festivals and distribution.
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