Freakier Friday
2025- Box office
The first live-action comedy of 2025 to cross $100 million worldwide — Opened to roughly $28–29 million domestically
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Nisha Ganatra
1974 – Present
- Region
- North America
- Heritage
- CanadaUnited StatesIndia
Biography
Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter and actress of Indian ancestry. She is best known for directing the films Late Night (2019) and Freakier Friday (2025). She began her career directing the films Chutney Popcorn (1999) and Cosmopolitan (2003), and was a consulting producer on, and directed three episodes of, the first season of the 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nisha Ganatra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Selected Filmography
Selected Recognition
Late Night
2019- Nominee
Golden Globe Awards (77th) · Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (2020) · Nominee
- Nominee
Hollywood Critics Association Awards · Best Female Director (2019) · Nominee
Chutney Popcorn
1999- Winner
Berlin International Film Festival · Audience Award (1999) · Winner
- Winner
Newport Beach Film Festival · Audience Award (1999) · Winner
- Winner
Outfest · Audience Award (1999) · Winner
- First
One of the first feature films centering a South Asian American lesbian character — one of the first South Asian films to premiere at Outfest
