Nizar Assad is a producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c. 1980’s Miami, Florida—where as a student of Documentary Photographer Tony Chirinos, and the late Journalist Danny Schechter, developed a vicious observational lens for investigating the human experience and the tortuous maze that surrounds us.

Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions in 2017, he’d prodan ambitious first slate of 17 episodic chapters commissioned for: THE LAST SHOT (Viceland), a 6-part vérité series that follows derailed American basketball players who are reborn as “Mercenaries” who compete in underground cash-tournaments across rural Mexico; DIRTY GOLD (directed by Stephen Maing) a one-hour film presented in Netflix’s investigative series DIRTY MONEY, that traces the massive amounts of gold flowing into the US to a tangled web of money laundering, illegal mining and environmental destruction; and GENERATION HUSTLE (HBO Max), a 10-part anthology on the lengths young con-artists go to for fame, fortune, and power.

In 2020, he rejoined Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Stephen Maing as a Development Producer on his upcoming vérité time-capsule on one of the most perplexing eras of American history: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT; and most recently as Producer for Apple TV+’s 6-part chronicle of Lionel Messi’s arrival to Major League Soccer: MESSI MEETS AMERICA; and Supervising Producer for HBO’s feature documentary on the meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the theatrical 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 funding organizing committee member of the Jigsaw Productions: WGAE Freelancers Union. He currently lives between Brooklyn, New York & South Florida developing his directorial feature documentary debut: THE FARM.

contact: writenizar@gmail.com