"Australia’s dirty secret", or misunderstood commmunity? This remote Aboriginal community has been closed to outsiders – until now. Hundreds of kilometres deep into the sacred heart of the central Australian desert is a hidden world: Utopia. But this cluster of outstations is utopian by name only. As filmmaker Patrick Abboud discovers, nowhere is the struggle to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities more urgent.

Is this Australia's most homophobic town? The Queensland electorate of Maranoa is rural, conservative and the only region where pollsters say a majority of people are against same sex marriage. Filmmaker Patrick Abboud went to meet the locals and find out why.

Physical abuse between same sex couples is described as a silent epidemic in the gay community. And, one young policeman is determined to change that because - he’s experienced it himself. Patrick Abboud spoke to these brave survivors.

Imagine if you had a loved one in prison, a Mum or a Dad convicted of crime as serious as murder. Well that’s the reality for thousands of young Australians known as the invisible victims of crime. They shared their stories exclusively with Filmmaker Patrick Abboud.

Every day, more than 100,000 students in Australia stay at home because they feel unsafe at school and social media is spawning brutal levels of cruelty among children online. Kids as young as 12 are being bullied to death. Some services are now reporting up to three suicides a week across the country as a result of the effects of bullying. Gaining exclusive access inside schools, Patrick Abboud investigates bullying's devastating toll on our most vulnerable speaking with victims, survivors, perpetrators and experts.

School is a challenge for many teenagers, but for some, the stakes are even higher. Filmmaker Patrick Abboud gains exclusive exclusive access inside a one-of-a kind high school for teen parents in Canberra. – but our characters’ lessons are not confined to the classroom. Many of the students are single parents, some are overcoming family trauma and drug dependency, and all are navigating a complex system. What unites them is a will to transform their lives – to get an education, stay on the right side of the law, and be the best parents they can be. Can they overcome the immense challenges in their lives to make it to graduation and a new future?

Three Palestinian families who've fled Israel's genocide of Gaza take us inside their lives. As they seek protection in Australia, filmmaker Patrick Abboud is by their side. A deeply personal film, and a side to war we rarely see.

Patrick Abboud explores the secret subculture of human pups: men who live as dogs.

Patrick Abboud takes us inside a hidden world, where being queer is still a crime and coming out comes with consequences. Confronting his past living a double life in western Sydney, he lands deep inside the complex lives of queer identifying Australian Arabs creating their own rules to survive.

RISE is a high-impact feature documentary that explodes with energy, heart, and defiance—pulling audiences into the hidden world of Western Sydney’s underground QTBIPOC ballroom scene. With unprecedented access, it follows a fearless cast of queer pioneers as they prepare to lay it all on the line at the legendary West Ball. Set against the stark reality of homophobic and transphobic suburbs that seek to erase them, RISE is both a celebration and a battle cry—a story of chosen family, radical self-expression, and the power of claiming space in a world that refuses to make room. This is more than spectacle—it’s survival.