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.
Greenlight the Sprint
Every film has a moment when it stops being an idea and starts becoming real.
Our first GBP 500 puts the creative tools, generation credits and specialist services in place to create, shape and finish the moving image and sound for The Sign of Three.
One-off backing contributes directly to the hard production spend. Monthly membership keeps the case open through Case Notes, behind-the-scenes updates, selected previews and deeper production dossiers.
The core video-generation budget for the full feature is just under GBP 15,000. Larger contributions take us from individual production units into scenes, sequences and ultimately the completed film.
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.