Sara Driver

Birthday: 1955-12-15
Birthplace: Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2019-05-15 The Dead Don't Die Female Coffee Zombie
2001-07-01 Some Days in January, 1984
1993-09-01 Strummer
1991-01-01 Keep It for Yourself Sam
1991-01-01 Figaro Story Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
1989-11-03 Bloodhounds of Broadway Yvette
1989-09-06 Mystery Train Airport Clerk
1984-10-01 Stranger Than Paradise Girl with Hat
1981-03-06 Permanent Vacation Nurse