Nizar Andres Assad is a documentary producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c. 1980s Miami. A perplexing coming of age where wildness and decadence, amorality and innocence, wonder and threat exist side-by-side in equal measure. Mentored by master documentary photographer Tony Chirinos and the late Emmy-winning journalist Danny Schechter, Nizar learned to harness an vicious observational lens towards investigating the tortuous maze of our human experience.

In New York, he emerged at Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions after leading field production on VICELAND’s six-part docuseries THE LAST SHOT, which follows derailed American basketball players competing for cash as mercenaries in Mexico. He went on to produce Stephen Maing’s film: DIRTY GOLD—an investigation into illegal mining, environmental ruin, and violence in Madre de Dios, Peru, featured in Season 2 of Netflix’s DIRTY MONEY—as well as HBO Max’s ten-part series Generation Hustle, exploring the extreme lengths young con artists go to for fame, fortune, and power.

Momentum soon welcomed more intentional collaborations, most notably reuniting with filmmaking mentor Stephen Maing & co-director Erik Metzgar's verite time-capsule: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, on the vastly different American lives experiencing a profound disconnection, division and uncertainty about the future; Apple TV’s 6-part exclusive chronicle on Lionel Messi’s journey into Major League Soccer: MESSI MEETS AMERICA—and his work as Supervising Producer on the HBO feature documentary MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH—an autopsy of a tech disruptor that sold a dream the math couldn’t sustain—earning him a 2025 News & Documentary Emmy® nomination.

Nizar is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America, a founding organizing committee member of the WGAE: Jigsaw Productions Freelancers Union, and Fine Arts graduate of Miami Dade College and Florida International University. He currently divides his time between Brooklyn and South Florida while developing his directorial debut, THE FARM.

contact: writenizar@gmail.com