Fadia Abboud is a filmmaker based out of Sydney, Australia, who most recently directed episodes of the SBS romantic drama FOUR YEARS LATER, which was filmed across Sydney, Mumbai and Jaipur, as well as the entirety of HOUSE OF GODS for ABC. Produced by Matchbox Pictures/NBCU, HOUSE OF GODS had its international premiere in competition at Series Mania 2024, and follows the lives of an ambitious Iraqi Australian family grappling with newfound power and privilege after their charismatic patriarch is elected head cleric of their local mosque. For her work on this project, Fadia was nominated for an ADG Award. The series also received a nomination for Best Miniseries at the 2025 AACTA Awards. In 2025, she is attached to direct the boundary-pushing sci-fi feature 2 MOONS for Co-Curious.

Fadia’s earlier television directing credits include, YEAR OF, a spin-off of the popular Stan Originals drama BUMP, ABC’s BARONS and LES NORTON, both of which received SPA Award nominations, Nine Network’s AFTER THE VERDICT and HERE COME THE HABIBS!, as well as Seven Network’s AUSTRALIAN GANGSTER. In 2020, she directed the ABC Me series HARDBALL, which won the 2020 Prix Jeunesse International award for Outstanding Children’s Television, and the International Emmy Award for Best ‘Kids: Live-Action’ series. On the second season of Network 10’s FIVE BEDROOMS, Fadia’s episode, ‘Twenty-Seven Weeks,’ was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award.

Crossing over into film, Fadia directed a segment of 2022 anthology feature HERE OUT WEST, which opened the Sydney Film Festival in 2021. Additionally, in 2018, Fadia was the recipient of two LGBTQI short film initiatives: SBS Love Bites and ABC Queer for Short. For the former, Fadia directed the short CONCERN FOR WELFARE, a 12-minute narrative fiction, and for the latter, CLUB ARAK, a seven-minute documentary based on a queer Arab dance party (of the same name) of which she is a founder. Funded by Parramatta City Council, her short BIG TROUBLE, LITTLE FISH (2010), which she also wrote, screened at Flickerfest in 2010.

Initially, Fadia rose to prominence in the industry in 2005 with her 26-minute documentary called I REMEMBER 1948, which screened on SBS. Her final film while doing her BA Communications at UTS was IN THE LADIES LOUNGE, which won two awards in the My Queer Career competition at the Mardi Gras Film Festival. Finally, between 2007 and 2017, Fadia Abboud was the co-director of the Arab Film Festival Australia.