Nisha Ganatra
Writer / Director / Producer
Filmmaker NISHA GANATRA, known for her singular and authentic vision, was awarded the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Film Craft: Direction for her film that stormed onto the scene: #wombstories. She directed the Sundance hit film LATE NIGHT starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. Late Night sold in a record-breaking deal and garnered the highest streaming numbers of the year for Amazon. She followed Late Night with the Working Title and Focus Features film: THE HIGH NOTE starring Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson. Currently, Nisha is directing FREAKIER FRIDAY starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in theaters this summer! Nisha was recently ranked the #1 director globally by Cannes, an honor only one other woman has achieved.
Nisha’s acclaimed début feature, CHUTNEY POPCORN with Jill Hennessy and Sakina Jaffrey, won Audience Awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, Newport Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles and more.
Known for her heartfelt humor and engaging voice, filmmaker Nisha Ganatra is a Golden Globe winner and an Emmy nominated director and writer seamlessly working in television and film. Nisha has directed GIRLS, MR. ROBOT, TRANSPARENT, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, FUTURE MAN, SHAMELESS, BLACK MONDAY, BROOKLYN 9-9 and LAST MAN ON EARTH.
Nisha directed the pilots for DELI BOYS (Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, Poorna Jagannathan) on Hulu, CLEAN SLATE (George Wallace, Laverne Cox, Telma Hopkins) on Amazon, and episodes of WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES (Kumail Nanjiai, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Annaleigh Ashford) for Hulu.
Ganatra, whose work is always in service to giving voice to the underrepresented, is excited about making new films that align with her creative and social impact values. Nisha has been creating emotional, authentic and humorous stories since her debut feature Chutney Popcorn by infusing her keen sense of comedy and storytelling with her personal life experience and point of view.
Comedy Reel
ArcLight Stories
Black Monday
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Girls
Goodbye Tour
Transparent
Moppa
Transparent
Wedge
Transparent
Looking Up
Mr. Robot
DA3M0NS
Dear White People
Chapter VII
Dear White People
Chapter IX
Last Man on Earth
The Big Day
Better Things
Brown
Better Things
Woman Is the Something of Something
Better Things
Scary Fun
Better Things
Hair of the Dog
Code Academy
Short Film
Beholder
Short Film
Brooklyn Nine Nine
The 9-8
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Monster in the Closet
Futureman
Girth, Wind & Fire, A Blowjob Before Dying
Shameless
The F Word
Married
Koreatown
Married
Guardians
Married
Pimps
Love
Anniversary Party
Cosmopolitan
Feature Film
Red Oaks
Swingers
Red Oaks
The Bar Mitzvah
You Me Her
Pilot
The Hunters
TV Movie