Nisha Ganatra

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1974-06-25 (51 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.

Acting

2001

2018

2000

The Acting Class

as Exotic Dancer

Production

2005

Cake

as Director

2008

2003

Fast Food High

as Director

1998

Fairy Tale

as Director of Photography

2013

The Hunters

as Director

2013

Pete's Christmas

as Director

2013

The Hunters

as Executive Producer

2001

Chutney Popcorn

as Director

2020

#WombStories

as Director

2003

Cosmopolitan

as Director

2016

Center Stage: On Pointe

as Executive Producer

2025

Freakier Friday

as Director

2019

Late Night

as Director

2001

2001

Chutney Popcorn

as Producer

2020

The High Note

as Director

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