Sara Driver
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 15, 1955
- Birthplace
- Westfield, New Jersey, USA
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.
Filmography
- An Odd Enchantment
An Odd Enchantment TBA
Director, Writer
- Garden of Ashes
Garden of Ashes TBA
Producer
Adios 2025
Actor
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver 2021
as Self (voice), Writer
The Dead Don't Die 2019
as Female Coffee Zombie, Creative Consultant
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat 2018
Director
Uncle Howard 2017
as Self
Paterson 2016
Script Consultant, Consulting Editor
Only Lovers Left Alive 2013
Thanks
Blank City 2011
as Self
Gold Eye Ball 2008
Writer, Director
Broken Flowers 2005
Idea, Script Consultant
Some Days in January, 1984 2001
Actor
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999
Story Consultant
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made 1994
Continuity
The Bowery 1994
as Self, Director
When Pigs Fly 1993
Director, Story
- Strummer
Strummer 1993
Actor, Director
Figaro Story 1993
as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
Keep It for Yourself 1991
as Sam
Bloodhounds of Broadway 1989
as Yvette
Mystery Train 1989
as Airport Clerk
Sleepwalk 1986
Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
Stranger Than Paradise 1984
as Girl with Hat, Producer, Production Manager
You Are Not I 1981
Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Permanent Vacation 1981
as Nurse, Production Manager, Assistant Director
Credits from TMDB.