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