Nizar Andres Assad is a documentary producer, filmmaker and descendant of first wave Colombian, Syrian lineage c. 1980’s Miami, Florida. A vesceral coming of age where wildness and decadence, amorality and innocence, wonder and threat existed side-by-side in equal measure. Mentored by master award-winning documentary photographer Tony Chirinos and the late Emmy-winning journalist Danny Schechter, Nizar would discover how to harness a vicious observational lens towards investigating the tortuous maze of our human experience.

In 2017, he joined Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions, helming verite production for VICELAND’s 6-part docuseries: THE LAST SHOT, that followed derailed basketball players who are reborn in rural Mexico as “Mercenarios” living off underground cash-tournaments; Followed by DIRTY GOLD, a 1-hour film directed by Stephen Maing, behind the life of Peruvian gold and the tangled web of money laundering, illegal mining and environmental destruction that dies on its way to the United States—featured in Netlfix’s Season 2 investigative series, DIRTY MONEY; and HBO Max’s 10-part anthology: GENERATION HUSTLE, on the lengths young con-artists  go to for fame, fortune, and power.

This momentum evolved into several more intentional collaborations on identity, global personas, and systematic racial failure—most notably reuniting with Emmy Award-winning fjlmmaker and mentor Stephen Maing and Eric Metzgar’s verite time-capsule: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, on the vastly different lives of Americans experiencing a profound disconnection, division and uncertainty about the future; Apple TV’s six-part exclusive chronicle following Lionel Messi’s transformation to 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