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Sara Driver

Director • Born 1955

Sara Driver

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About

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

American Playhouse posterAmerican PlayhouseSeries • 1982Monsters posterMonstersSeries • 1988Broken Flowers posterBroken FlowersMovie • 2005Mystery Train posterMystery TrainMovie • 1989Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai posterGhost Dog: The Way of the SamuraiMovie • 1999The Dead Don't Die posterThe Dead Don't DieMovie • 2019Only Lovers Left Alive posterOnly Lovers Left AliveMovie • 2013Paterson posterPatersonMovie • 2016Stranger Than Paradise posterStranger Than ParadiseMovie • 1984Permanent Vacation posterPermanent VacationMovie • 1981Bloodhounds of Broadway posterBloodhounds of BroadwayMovie • 1989