Nisha Ganatra

Nisha Ganatra is a British-Canadian lesbian filmmaker known for Chutney Popcorn (1999), which she wrote, directed, and starred in — a comedy about a lesbian Indian-American woman who agrees to be a surrogate for her sister — and for Late Night (2019), starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kolar and produced by Amazon. She has also directed extensive episodic television. Ganatra has been openly lesbian throughout her career and has spoken about the compound challenge of being a South Asian lesbian filmmaker in an industry that has been slow to value either identity.