Directing
Nisha Ganatra
EN cinema · 20 credits
Born
25 June 1974 (age 52)
Birthplace
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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
Filmography
Junky Punky Girlz
Director, Writer, Editor
Freakier Friday
Director
#WombStories
Director
The High Note
Director
Late Night
Director
Half the Picture
as Self
Center Stage: On Pointe
Writer, Executive Producer
FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
Director, Writer
The Hunters
Director, Executive Producer
Pete's Christmas
Director
Will You Merry Me?
Director
The Cheetah Girls: One World
Screenplay
Bam Bam and Celeste
as Linda
Cake
Director
Fast Food High
Director
Chutney Popcorn
as Reena, Director, Producer, Writer
The Acting Class
as Exotic Dancer
Fairy Tale
Director of Photography