Fay Beck is a Greek and Cypriot writer, director and producer based in London whose work explores psychological fragmentation, identity, embodiment, and the unstable boundary between internal and external reality.
Emerging from a background in performance psychology and neuroscience, Beck spent years working with actors and high-performance individuals, developing methods for accessing extreme emotional and psychological states under pressure. That research now forms the foundation of her filmmaking practice — one rooted in psychologically interior storytelling, emotional precision, and the physical architecture of human behaviour.
Her work sits at the intersection of arthouse cinema and psychological horror, drawing influence from filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Michael Haneke, Darren Aronofsky, Jonathan Glazer and Lars von Trier. Across her projects, horror is approached not as spectacle, but as emotional exposure — the terror of self-confrontation, dissociation, memory, repression, and the collapse of identity.
Beck is co-founder of Aberrant Gene Films, a London-based production company focused on psychologically driven auteur cinema with international scope.
Her debut feature, OMIO, is the first part of the ΧΡΕΟΣ (Her Debt) Trilogy — an interconnected body of films examining trauma, embodiment, female identity, and psychological inheritance through formally and stylistically distinct but thematically unified works.
Martina Avogadri is an Italian-British actress working across film and television.
She stars in the Netflix feature Lift alongside Jean Reno, Kevin Hart, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and has appeared in titles including The Diplomat and Film4’s upcoming Everybody Wants to F*ck Me.
Her work also spans a range of independent genre films, including the recent horror The Krampus Rises, in which she played a leading role.
She trained at the prestigious Paolo Grassi Drama School in Milan and Actors Door Studio in London, and holds a degree in Philosophy-Aesthetics from the University of Milan, alongside a Script Development diploma from the National Film and Television School (NFTS).
