Abaya started making films at age 9, starting with The Battle of McLaren Park, in which he spliced a scene of Clint Eastwood as a bomber pilot from 1950s sci-fi film, Tarantula and earning his first television screen credit from films he shot age 12 [REF].
In 2003, Abaya served as concert shoot director for the feature, Joan Armatrading, All the Way from America.