Nizar Andres Assad is a producer, filmmaker, and descendant of 1980s Miami—an identity groomed adaject to a tumultuous period of transformation marked by the McDuffie riots, an influx of 125,000 refugees, and a rampant cocaine cartel that operated in broad daylight. Mentored by documentary photographer Tony Chirinos and the late Emmy award journalist Danny Schechter, he would harness a vicious observarional lens towards investigating the tortuous maze of our human experience.

In 2017, he stepped into his first major producing role with Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions, helming verite production of VICELAND’s 6-part docuseries: THE LAST SHOT, that followed derailed basketball players who are reborn as Mexican “Mercenarios” who compete in tiny pueblos for cash. Followed by DIRTY GOLD, an investigative film by Stephen Maing in Season 2 of Netflix’s DIRTY MONEY exposing the dark web of money laundering behind U.S. gold imports—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 a series of collaborations where he navigated the friction between systemic failure and global figures. Most notably, reuniting with Stephen Maing on his upcoming verite interrogation on American political life; Apple TV’s six-part chronicle of a sporting god’s arrival to the United States, 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—earned him a recent Emmy® nomination.

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

contact: writenizar@gmail.com