Nisha Ganatra

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1974-06-25 (50 years old)

Place of Birth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nisha Ganatra

Biography

Nisha Ganatra is a film director, film producer, screenwriter and actress of Indian ancestry. She is best known for her films Chutney Popcorn (1999) and Cosmopolitan (2003), and for being a consulting producer on, and directing three episodes of, the first season of the Golden Globe–winning 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. She is openly lesbian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nisha Ganatra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

Junky Punky Girlz

as Director

2025
Freakier Friday

as Director

2025
Deli Boys

as Director

2022
2021
2020
#WombStories

as Director

2020
The High Note

as Director

2019
Late Night

as Director

2019
Black Monday

as Director

2019
Dollface

as Director

2017
Future Man

as Director

2017
Dear White People

as Director

2017
Great News

as Director

2016
Better Things

as Director

2015
Mr. Robot

as Director

2015
2014
Transparent

as Director

2013
The Hunters

as Director

2013
Pete's Christmas

as Director

2013
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

as Director

2012
The Mindy Project

as Director

2011
Shameless

as Director

2008
Will You Merry Me?

as Director

2005
Cake

as Director

2003
Fast Food High

as Director

2003
Cosmopolitan

as Director

2002
Bliss

as Director

2001
Chutney Popcorn

as Director

Producer

2025
Deli Boys

as Executive Producer

2016
Center Stage: On Pointe

as Executive Producer

2016
Better Things

as Co-Executive Producer

2013
The Hunters

as Executive Producer

2001
Chutney Popcorn

as Producer

Writer

Actor

2018
2001
2000
The Acting Class

as Exotic Dancer

Camera

1998
Fairy Tale

as Director of Photography