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.

Directed

1. Monsters (1988) — Director
2. Sleepwalk (1986) — Director
3. You Are Not I (1981) — Director
4. Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) — Director
5. When Pigs Fly (1993) — Director
6. The Bowery (1994) — Director
7. Gold Eye Ball (2008) — Director
8. Strummer (1993) — Director
9. An Odd Enchantment — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Dead Don't Die (2019) — Female Coffee Zombie
2. Stranger Than Paradise (1984) — Girl with Hat
3. Mystery Train (1989) — Airport Clerk
4. Permanent Vacation (1981) — Nurse
5. Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) — Yvette
6. Monsters (1988) — Mom (voice)
7. Blank City (2011) — Self
8. Uncle Howard (2017) — Self
9. American Playhouse (1982) — Yvette
10. Keep It for Yourself (1991) — Sam
11. The Bowery (1994) — Self
12. Figaro Story (1993) — Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
13. Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (2021) — Self (voice)
14. Strummer (1993)
15. Some Days in January, 1984 (2001)
16. Adios (2025)