Sara Driver

Sara Driver

  • Birthday: 1955-12-15
  • Place of birth: Westfield, New Jersey, USA
  • Also know as: Sara Miller Driver

Biography

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.

Filmography

Permanent Vacation

1981

As Nurse

Blank City

2011

As Self

Stranger Than Paradise

1984

As Girl with Hat

Figaro Story

1991

As Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")

Strummer

1993

As

The Dead Don't Die

2019

As Female Coffee Zombie

Mystery Train

1989

As Airport Clerk

Uncle Howard

2017

As Self

The Bowery

1994

As Self

Production

Stranger Than Paradise

1984

As Producer

Sleepwalk

1986

As Director

You Are Not I

1981

As Director

When Pigs Fly

1993

As Director

The Bowery

1994

As Director

Permanent Vacation

1981

As Production Manager

Permanent Vacation

1981

As Assistant Director

You Are Not I

1981

As Producer

You Are Not I

1981

As Editor

You Are Not I

1981

As Writer

Gold Eye Ball

2008

As Director

Gold Eye Ball

2008

As Writer

Strummer

1993

As Director

When Pigs Fly

1993

As Story

Sleepwalk

1986

As Producer

Sleepwalk

1986

As Screenplay

Sleepwalk

1986

As Story

Stranger Than Paradise

1984

As Production Manager

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999

As Story Consultant

Broken Flowers

2005

As Idea

Broken Flowers

2005

As Script Consultant

Paterson

2016

As Script Consultant

Paterson

2016

As Consulting Editor

The Dead Don't Die

2019

As Creative Consultant

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013

As Thanks

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