Nisha Ganatra
View on IMDb ↗Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter and actress of Indian ancestry. She is best known for directing the films Late Night (2019) and Freakier Friday (2025). She began her career directing the films Chutney Popcorn (1999) and Cosmopolitan (2003), and was a consulting producer on, and directed three episodes of, the first season of the TV series Transparent. Ganatra graduated from the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts where she studied with Martin Scorcese and Spike Lee. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nisha Ganatra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Half the Picture
The Acting Class
Chutney Popcorn
Bam Bam and CelesteFilmography (4)
Crew (36)
- 2025Freakier FridayDirector
- 2025Clean SlateDirector
- 2025Deli BoysDirector
- 2022Welcome to ChippendalesDirector
- 2021And Just Like That…Director
- 2020The High NoteDirector
- 2020#WombStoriesDirector
- 2019DollfaceDirector
- 2019Black MondayDirector
- 2019Late NightDirector
- 2017Future ManDirector
- 2017Great NewsDirector
- 2017Dear White PeopleDirector
- 2016Better ThingsCo-Executive Producer
- 2016Center Stage: On PointeExecutive Producer
- 2015Mr. RobotDirector
- 2015The Last Man on EarthDirector
- 2014Red OaksDirector
- 2014TransparentConsulting Producer
- 2014FUTURESTATES: Code AcademyWriter
- 2013Brooklyn Nine-NineDirector
- 2013Pete's ChristmasDirector
- 2013The HuntersExecutive Producer
- 2012The Mindy ProjectDirector
- 2011ShamelessDirector
- 2010HavenDirector
- 2008The Cheetah Girls: One WorldScreenplay
- 2008Will You Merry Me?Director
- 2005CakeDirector
- 2003CosmopolitanDirector
- 2003Fast Food HighDirector
- 2002BlissDirector
- 1998Fairy TaleDirector of Photography
- —Junky Punky GirlzEditor
- —Untitled Boy Band PicDirector
- —Unaccustomed EarthCreator