#women behind the camera

Late Night is now playing in select cities and opens nationwide on Friday.

Director Nisha Ganatra and screenwriter Mindy Kaling premiered Late Night during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and it went on to be one of the Festival’s biggest deal earners of the year.

“So much of this movie is about being a fan and being on the outside of the entertainment business,” says Kaling. “That story has been told many, many, many times by 52-year-old white men, and I love all those movies. And as a comedy nerd I’ve always identified with them because it was the closest thing that I could identify with. There was no one like me making those kind of films.” - Mindy Kaling from Variety

Emma Thompson brings pathos and amusingly severe charm to the pantsuit-clad Katherine Newbury. Smartly written by Mindy Kaling and snappily directed by Nisha Ganatra, Late Night takes on white privilege, entitlement, and a culture veering toward crassness and conservatism. Questioning how women in power are “supposed” to act, it delivers a winsome, sophisticated comedy about the times in which we live.

1: Mindy Kaling and Nisha Ganatra during 2019 Sundance Film Festival. © 2019 Dia Dipasupil/WireImage.com; 2, 3: Film stills courtesy of Late Night.