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Sara Driver

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.

Known For

Permanent Vacation
Permanent Vacation
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Keep It for Yourself
Keep It for Yourself
Figaro Story
Figaro Story

Filmography

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