Nizar Assad is a documentary producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c. 1980’s Miami, Florida. A seemingly beautiful yet broken city that profoundly influenced his identity and ability to see beyond the utopian scheme. It wasn’t until he discovered how to dissect these images from mentors Documentary Photographer Tony Chirinos, and the late Emmy Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter, that he’d harness a vicious observational lens towards the tortuous path of our human experience.

In 2017, he reached Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions and produced an ambitious first slate that spanned 17 episodes under: THE LAST SHOT (Viceland), a 6-part vérité series that follows rejected American basketball players who are reborn as “Mercenaries” who migrate and compete in underground Mexican cash-prize tournaments; DIRTY GOLD, Stephen Maing’s one-hour film attached to Netflix’s 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 Emmy Award-winning 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