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.
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Full filmography
- Monsters (1988) as Mom (voice)
- The Dead Don't Die (2019) as Female Coffee Zombie
- Mystery Train (1989) as Airport Clerk
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984) as Girl with Hat
- Permanent Vacation (1981) as Nurse
- Blank City (2011) as Self
- Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) as Yvette
- Uncle Howard (2017) as Self
- Figaro Story (1993) as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
- Keep It for Yourself (1991) as Sam
- Some Days in January, 1984 (2001)
- The Bowery (1994) as Self
- Strummer (1993)
- Adios (2025)
- Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (2021) as Self (voice)