Known for Production
Diane Nabatoff founded Tiara Blu Films in 2000. She produced the critically acclaimed Take the Lead and Narc and served as executive producer on The Brass Teapot and Gray Matters. Her television credits include executive producing Knights of the South Bronx for A&E, Racing for Time for Lifetime, and the series After Hours with Daniel for Ovation. She also co-executive produced the pilots Baseball Wives for HBO and Scent of the Missing for TNT. Before launching Tiara Blu Films, Nabatoff was a producer at Interscope Communications, where her credits include Very Bad Things, The Proposition, Operation Dumbo Drop, Separate Lives, Holy Matrimony, and Body Language. Earlier in her career, she held senior roles as Senior Vice President of Production at Henry Winkler’s Fair Dinkum Productions and Vice President at Vestron Pictures, where she executive produced Hider in the House and Fear. She began her career at The Feldman-Meeker Co. as Vice President, contributing to The Golden Child, and served as associate producer on The Kindred and Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark. Nabatoff holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Harvard University and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.
Filmography
16 films


Take the Lead
2006 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.


Narc
2002 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Narcotics Sergeant Nick Tellis, on leave after a trauma, is called back to investigate the murder of fellow undercover operative Michael Calvess, joined by the victim's unpredictable and brutal ex-partner, Henry Oak. Working together in the back alleys of Detroit, Tellis and Oak delve into a dark investigation that leads them to uncover shocking secrets and question the corruption and morality within the department, encountering unorthodox methods and a brutal truth about Calvess's death.


Very Bad Things
1998 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...


The Proposition
1998 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.


Separate Lives
1995 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Tom Beckwith has just quit his job as a police officer in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her childhood she is suffering from multiple personality disorder, and it looks like her other ego may have killed someone. So Tom tries to help her by observing her, combining his professional abilities as an ex-cop and his recently gained knowledge of psychology.


Operation Dumbo Drop
1995 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!


Body Language
1995 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A lawyer, defending a Mafia boss, falls for a beautiful woman with a sad story to tell. She says she's being abused by her brutal husband and she needs his help.


Holy Matrimony
1994 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.