Sara Driver

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1955-12-15 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Westfield, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As Sara Miller Driver

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 city's massive changes through the 1980s. She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.

Known For

Director

2008
Gold Eye Ball

as Director

1994
The Bowery

as Director

1993
When Pigs Fly

as Director

1993
Strummer

as Director

1988
Monsters

as Director

1986
Sleepwalk

as Director

1981
You Are Not I

as Director

1981
Permanent Vacation

as Assistant Director

Actor

2019
The Dead Don't Die

as Female Coffee Zombie

2017
Uncle Howard

as Self

2011
Blank City

as Self

1994
The Bowery

as Self

1991
Figaro Story

as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")

1989
Mystery Train

as Airport Clerk

1984
Stranger Than Paradise

as Girl with Hat

1981

Writer

2016
Paterson

as Script Consultant

2008
Gold Eye Ball

as Writer

2005
2005
Broken Flowers

as Script Consultant

1999
1993
When Pigs Fly

as Story

1986
Sleepwalk

as Story

1986
Sleepwalk

as Screenplay

1981
You Are Not I

as Writer

Producer

1986
Sleepwalk

as Producer

1984
1984
Stranger Than Paradise

as Production Manager

1981
Permanent Vacation

as Production Manager

1981
You Are Not I

as Producer

Editor

2016
Paterson

as Consulting Editor

1981
You Are Not I

as Editor

Crew

2019
The Dead Don't Die

as Creative Consultant