Nizar Assad is a producer, filmmaker, and descendant of c.1980's Miami, Florida. As an early student and apprentice to Guggenheim Fellow photographer Tony Chirinos and Emmy Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter, he developed a vicious observational lens for investigating the human experience and how it evolves through the intricate web that surrounds us.

Helmed by Academy Award-winning Jigsaw Productions in 2017, he produced his first slate spanning an ambitious 17 episodic chapters attached to: THE LAST SHOT (Viceland), a 6-part vérité series following derailed American basketball players attempt the underground world of Mexican cash-wagered tournaments as their last opportunity to make a living playing the game they love. DIRTY GOLD (Netflix), directed by Stephen Maing, is a one-hour film presented in Netflix’s investigative series DIRTY MONEY, that uncovers the life cycle Amazon Rainforest into U.S. financial institutions, consumer products, and the lives devastated along the way; and GENERATION HUSTLE (HBO Max), a 10-part anthology series on the lengths young con-artists go to for fame, fortune, and power. Behind the huge quantities of gold flowing into the U.S. each year lies a tangled web of money laundering, illegal mining and environmental destruction.

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 on HBO’s chronicle 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 founding organizing committee member of the Jigsaw Productions: WGAE Freelancers Union. He now lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where he is currently developing his directorial feature documentary debut: THE FARM.

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