Nizar Andres Assad is a producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c. 1980’s Miami, Florida. A seemingly beautiful yet rougue city that profoundly shaped his ability to see beyond its programming. Mentored to pursue those visions from documentary photographer Tony Chirinos, and the late Emmy Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter, he would merge a vicious observational lens towards investigating our human experience.

Helmed by Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Production in 2017, he produced his first slate spannning 17 episodes across: THE LAST SHOT (Viceland), a 6-part vérité series that follows rejected American basketball players reborn as “Mercenaries” who migrate to compete in underground Mexican cash-prize tournaments; DIRTY GOLD, Stephen Maing’s one-hour film attached to Netflix’s S2 investigative series DIRTY MONEY, that traces our US gold supply to a tangled web of money laundering and illegal mining inside the Peruvian Amazon; and GENERATION HUSTLE (HBO Max), a 10-part anthology on the lengths young con-artists go to for fame, fortune, and power.

Since the pandemic, he rejoined filmmaker Stephen Maing on his upcoming vérité time-capsule on one of the most perplexing eras of American history: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT; Apple TV+’s 6-part chronicle of Lionel Messi’s arrival to Major League Soccer: MESSI MEETS AMERICA; and most recently, HBO Original documentary on the meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the movie subscription app: MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH, directed by Muta-Ali Muhammad.

Nizar is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America, the Documentary Producers Alliance, and a founding organizing committee member of the Jigsaw Productions: WGAE Freelancers Union. He now currently resides between Brooklyn & South Florida developing his directorial debut: THE FARM.

contact: writenizar@gmail.com