Sara Driver

Known for DirectingBorn 1955-12-15 (age 70)Westfield, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Figaro Story

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Only Lovers Left Alive

Paterson

The Bowery

Mystery Train

Blank City

Stranger Than Paradise

Broken Flowers

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Uncle Howard

Monsters

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

You Are Not I

American Playhouse

Keep It for Yourself

Sleepwalk

Permanent Vacation

The Dead Don't Die

Bloodhounds of Broadway

When Pigs Fly

Adios

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver

Gold Eye Ball

Some Days in January, 1984

Strummer

Garden of Ashes

An Odd Enchantment