
Nisha Ganatra
DirectorActive 2013
Career at a glance
2Hallmark films
1 at Christmas
Weirdness7.0 / 10
Noticeably offbeat
Everything Nisha has done for Hallmark, from The Hunters (2013) right through to Pete's Christmas (2013).
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- Vancouver
Nisha Ganatra is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. She wrote, directed, and produced the independent comedy drama Chutney Popcorn (1999) and later directed the independent film Cosmopolitan (2003) and the romantic-comedy Cake (2005). Ganatra has directed for numerous television shows, including The Real World, Transparent, You Me Her, Better Things, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She also directed the comedy-dramas Late Night (2019) and The High Note (2020). Ganatra served as a consulting producer on the first season of Transparent, for which she was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series. She directed Freakier Friday, the sequel to Disney's 2003 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, which was released in theaters on August 8, 2025.

