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

Career Timeline

19811986199119962001200620112018
  1. 2018
  2. 2008
    Gold Eye Ball

    Director • Directing

  3. 1994
    The Bowery

    Director • Directing

  4. 1993
    When Pigs Fly

    Director • Directing

  5. 1993
    Strummer

    Director • Directing

  6. 1986
    Sleepwalk

    Director • Directing

  7. 1981
    Permanent Vacation

    Assistant Director • Directing

  8. 1981
    You Are Not I

    Director • Directing

Sara Driver - Aperture