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Sara Driver

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Dec 15, 1955(age: 70)
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Sara Driver

Biography of Sara Driver:

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 Driver has directed:

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat(2018)
Gold Eye Ball(2008)
The Bowery(1994)
When Pigs Fly(1993)
Strummer(1993)
Sleepwalk(1986)
You Are Not I(1981)
An Odd Enchantment

Sara Driver has acted in:

Adios(2025)
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver(2021) ... as Self (voice)
The Dead Don't Die(2019) ... as Female Coffee Zombie
Uncle Howard(2017) ... as Self
Blank City(2011) ... as Self
Some Days in January, 1984(2001)
The Bowery(1994) ... as Self
Strummer(1993)
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
Stranger Than Paradise(1984) ... as Girl with Hat
Permanent Vacation(1981) ... as Nurse

Additional credits for Sara Driver:

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver(2021)(Writer)
The Dead Don't Die(2019)(Creative Consultant)
Paterson(2016)(Script Consultant)
Only Lovers Left Alive(2013)(Thanks)
Gold Eye Ball(2008)(Writer)
Broken Flowers(2005)(Idea)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(1999)(Story Consultant)
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made(1994)(Continuity)
When Pigs Fly(1993)(Story)
Sleepwalk(1986)(Story)
Stranger Than Paradise(1984)(Producer)
You Are Not I(1981)(Editor)
Permanent Vacation(1981)(Production Manager)
Garden of Ashes(Producer)
An Odd Enchantment(Writer)

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