Nisha Ganatra

Born: 1974-06-25

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.


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The Acting Class

as Exotic Dancer
Released: 2000-04-29

A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college...

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Chutney Popcorn

as Reena
Released: 2001-01-11

Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who...

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Half the Picture

as Self
Released: 2018-01-23

At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about...

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