Sara Driver

Sara Driver

Known For: Directing

Date Of Birth:1955-12-15

Place Of Birth:Westfield, New Jersey, USA

Sara Miller Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress. A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Driver has directed two feature films, Sleepwalk (1986) and When Pigs Fly (1993), as well as a notable short film, You Are Not I (1981), and a documentary, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017), on the young artist's pre-fame life in the burgeoning downtown New York arts scene before the city's massive changes through the 1980s. She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.

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Stranger Than Paradise
Sleepwalk
You Are Not I
When Pigs Fly
Sleepwalk
Sleepwalk
Sleepwalk
The Bowery
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Permanent Vacation
Permanent Vacation
Stranger Than Paradise
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers
Paterson
Paterson
The Dead Don't Die
Only Lovers Left Alive
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
You Are Not I
You Are Not I
You Are Not I
Gold Eye Ball
Gold Eye Ball
When Pigs Fly