Sara Driver

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1955-12-15 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Westfield, New Jersey, USA

Sara 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 cit...

Acting

1981

1994

The Bowery

as Self

2011

Blank City

as Self

1984

Stranger Than Paradise

as Girl with Hat

1991

Figaro Story

as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")

2019

The Dead Don't Die

as Female Coffee Zombie

1989

Mystery Train

as Airport Clerk

2017

Production

1984

1986

Sleepwalk

as Director

1981

You Are Not I

as Director

1993

When Pigs Fly

as Director

1986

Sleepwalk

as Story

1986

Sleepwalk

as Producer

1986

Sleepwalk

as Screenplay

1994

The Bowery

as Director

1981

Permanent Vacation

as Production Manager

1981

Permanent Vacation

as Assistant Director

1984

Stranger Than Paradise

as Production Manager

1999

2005

2005

Broken Flowers

as Script Consultant

2016

Paterson

as Script Consultant

2016

Paterson

as Consulting Editor

2019

The Dead Don't Die

as Creative Consultant

1981

You Are Not I

as Editor

1981

You Are Not I

as Producer

1981

You Are Not I

as Writer

2008

Gold Eye Ball

as Writer

2008

Gold Eye Ball

as Director

1993

Strummer

as Director

1993

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