Sara Driver
- Directing
- December 15, 1955 · Westfield, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Adios
- Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver · Self, Writer
- The Dead Don't Die · Female Coffee Zombie, Creative Consultant
- Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat · Director
- Uncle Howard · Self
- Paterson · Script Consultant, Consulting Editor
- Only Lovers Left Alive · Thanks
- Blank City · Self
- Gold Eye Ball · Writer, Director
- Broken Flowers · Idea, Script Consultant
- Some Days in January, 1984
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai · Story Consultant
- Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made · Continuity
- The Bowery · Self, Director
- When Pigs Fly · Director, Story
- Strummer · Director
- Figaro Story · Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
- Keep It for Yourself · Sam
- Bloodhounds of Broadway · Yvette
- Mystery Train · Airport Clerk
- Monsters · Mom (Voice), Director
- Sleepwalk · Director, Story
- Stranger Than Paradise · Girl with Hat, Producer
- American Playhouse · Yvette
- You Are Not I · Director, Editing
- Permanent Vacation · Nurse, Production Manager
- Garden of Ashes · Producer
- An Odd Enchantment · Director, Writer