Nizar Andres Assad is a documentary producer, filmmaker, and descendant of a rogue c. 1980’s Miami, Florida—where wildness and decadence, amorality and innocence, wonder and threat existed side-by-side in equal measure. Mentored by master documentary photographer Tony Chirinos, and the late Emmy Award-winning journalist, activist Danny Schechter, he learned to harness a vicious observational lens for investigating the tortous maze of our human experience.

In 2017—he emerged at Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Production as an embedded producer on the 6-part verite-docuseries: THE LAST SHOT, following a group of derailed American basketball players living pueblo-to-pueblo in the underground cash world of Mexican Mercenary basketball. Followed by DIRTY GOLD, a deeply immersive 1-hour spotlight directed by Stephen Maing into corporate America’s money laundering connection in the wake of illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru—featured in Netflix’s investigative series: DIRTY MONEY Season 2—and HBO Max’s 10-part docuseries: GENERATION HUSTLE, profiling infamous con-artists and entrepreneurs such as: WeWork founder Adam Neumann, and convicted Colombian-born, fake Saudi Prince: Anthony Gignac aka Prince Khalid bin Al-Saud.

Since 2020, he reunited with filmmaking mentor Stephen Maing on his feature length verite timecapsule: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, on the vastly different American lives experiencing a profound disconnection, division and uncertainty about the future. Followed by Apple TV’s 6-part docuseries embedded with Lionel Messi: MESSI MEETS AMERICA, and his role as Supervising Producer on the feature length HBO documentary: MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH—earning a 2025 News & Documentary Emmy® Award-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 relocates between New York and South Florida developing his directorial debut: THE FARM.

contact: writenizar@gmail.com