Director
Sara Driver
70 years · Westfield, New Jersey, USA · 18 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 18
Adios
2025 · Actor
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
2021 · Self (voice), Writer
The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Female Coffee Zombie
On Netflix
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018 · Director
On Kanopy
Uncle Howard
2017 · Self
Blank City
2011 · Self
On Kanopy
Gold Eye Ball
2008 · Director, Writer
Some Days in January, 1984
2001 · Actor
The Bowery
1994 · Self, Director
On Kanopy
When Pigs Fly
1993 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Figaro Story
1993 · Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
Keep It for Yourself
1991 · Sam
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989 · Yvette
Mystery Train
1989 · Airport Clerk
On Criterion Channel
Sleepwalk
1986 · Director, Producer
On Hoopla
Stranger Than Paradise
1984 · Girl with Hat, Producer
On HBO Max
You Are Not I
1981 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Permanent Vacation
1981 · Nurse
On HBO Max