Sara Driver
Born December 15, 1955 (Age: 70)
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Westfield, New Jersey, USA
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.
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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Filmography
The Dead Don't Die
2019
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as Female Coffee Zombie
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Age: 63
Blank City
2011
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as Self
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Age: 55
Some Days in January, 1984
2001
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as
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Age: 45
No Image
Strummer
1993
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as
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Age: 37
Figaro Story
1991
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as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
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Age: 35
Keep It for Yourself
1991
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as Sam
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Age: 35
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
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as Yvette
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Age: 33
Mystery Train
1989
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as Airport Clerk
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Age: 33
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
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as Girl with Hat
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Age: 28
Permanent Vacation
1981
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as Nurse
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Age: 25