Nizar Andres Assad is a documentary producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c. 1980s Miami, Florida. A visceral coming of age drawn to the wildness and decadence, amorality and innocence, wonder and threat that existed side-by-side in equal measure. Fiercely guided on the fundamentals to see beyond by earliest mentors: master documentary photographer Tony Chirinos, the late Emmy Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter, he would learn to harness a vicious observational lens for investigating the tortous maze of our human experience.

In 2017, he would emerge at Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions, layering his footprint on the 6-part verite docuseries: THE LAST SHOT, which follows a group of derailed American basketball players who survive as “Mercenarios” that compete for cash in the underground world of Mexican tournament basketball. Followed by DIRTY GOLD, a devastating 1-hour cinematic reveal alongside visionary director Stephen Maing into corporate America’s influence on widespread deforestation and the human lives caught in the wake of illegal gold mining—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, Nizar most notably reuniting with filmmaking mentor Stephen Maing & co-director Erik Metzgar on their 2026 feature doc: 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 work as Supervising Producer on the HBO feature 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