Nizar Andres Assad is a producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c. 1980’s Miami, Florida. A seemingly idyllic, yet Paradise Lost that had a profound influence on his perceptiveness, empathy, and moral courage. Mentored to interpret these visions from documentary photographer Tony Chirinos and the late Emmy Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter, he would merge a vicious observational lens towards investigating the tortuous path of our human experience.

Helmed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, he earned his first producing credits with Jigsaw Productions from 2017-2020 for: 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’s continued independently rejoining 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, the Emmy-nominated HBO feature documentary on the meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the movie subscription app: MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH.

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

contact: writenizar@gmail.com