Nizar Andres Assad is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and descendant of Colombian-Syrian lineage c.1980s Miami, Florida. A perplexing coming of age inside a makeshift paradise—defined by the police killing of unarmed Black insurance salesman Arthur McDuffie, the desperate arrival of 135,000 Cuban refugees, and a lawless, "Cocaine Cowboy” cartel that operated in plain sight. Mentored by master documentary photographer Tony Chirinos and the late, tireless Emmy-winning journalist Danny Schechter, Nizar would learn to harness a vicious observational lens to investigate the tortuous, beautiful 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, following derailed basketball players who are reborn as “Mercenarios” who survive, competing pueblo-to-pueblo, for scraps of cash in underground rural Mexico. 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 and widespread deforestation 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 feature length verite-interrogation on the vastly different lives of Americans experiencing a profound sense of disconnection, division and uncertainty about the future: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, 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—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