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Sara Driver

1955 (70) • Directing

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

The Dead Don't Die

54%

Creative Consultant

2019

Only Lovers Left Alive

72%

Thanks

2013

Paterson

71%

Script Consultant

2016

Broken Flowers

69%

Idea

2005

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

74%

Story Consultant

1999

Stranger Than Paradise

72%

Producer

1984

Permanent Vacation

59%

Nurse

1981

Monsters

69%

Director

1988

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver

Self (voice)

2021

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver

Writer

2021

The Dead Don't Die

54%

Female Coffee Zombie

2019

The Dead Don't Die

54%

Creative Consultant

2019

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

68%

Director

2018

Uncle Howard

66%

Self

2017

Paterson

71%

Script Consultant

2016

Paterson

71%

Consulting Editor

2016

Only Lovers Left Alive

72%

Thanks

2013

Blank City

69%

Self

2011

Gold Eye Ball

Director

2008

Gold Eye Ball

Writer

2008

Broken Flowers

69%

Idea

2005

Broken Flowers

69%

Script Consultant

2005

Some Days in January, 1984

2001

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

74%

Story Consultant

1999

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

68%

Continuity

1994

The Bowery

73%

Self

1994

The Bowery

73%

Director

1994

When Pigs Fly

56%

Director

1993

When Pigs Fly

56%

Story

1993

Strummer

1993

Strummer

Director

1993

Figaro Story

80%

Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")

1993

Keep It for Yourself

64%

Sam

1991

Bloodhounds of Broadway

57%

Yvette

1989

Mystery Train

73%

Airport Clerk

1989

Monsters

69%

Director

1988

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