Before joining the DGA training program, Abranian was an office production assistant on the 2003 film S.W.A.T. (featuring Reg E. Cathey and Bruce Gray) and a set staff assistant on the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch (starring Fred Williamson). [3] Incidentally, both of these films were based on 1970s television series that aired on ABC. Abranian then worked as a production assistant on the 2006 remake of the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls.